Mrs Woolf and the Servants
Autor Alison Lighten Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 aug 2008
Mrs Woolf and The Servantsexplores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf’s extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, Alison Light chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century’s greatest writers.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780140254105
ISBN-10: 0140254102
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: integrated b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0140254102
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: integrated b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Alison
Light
is
the
author
ofForever
England:
Femininity,
Literature
and
Conservatism
between
the
Warsand
edited
Virginia
Woolf’sFlushfor
Penguin
Classics.
She
has
worked
at
the
BBC
and
lectured
at
London
University.
She
is
currently
a
part-time
Professor
at
the
Raphael
Samuel
History
Centre
in
the
University
of
East
London
and
also
teaches
in
the
School
of
English
at
the
University
of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
She
is
a
contributor
to
theLondon
Review
of
Books.
Her
grandmother
worked
as
a
domestic
servant.
Recenzii
Fascinating,
beautifully
written
and
meticulously
researched
An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery
Offers us an invaluable glimpse into the hidden history of domestic service in an absorbing narrative, beautifully written with the sensibility of a poet
A compelling portrait of how rich and poor women of this time were locked into a strange and pernicious symbiosis, and a vital warning against social inequality
An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery
Offers us an invaluable glimpse into the hidden history of domestic service in an absorbing narrative, beautifully written with the sensibility of a poet
A compelling portrait of how rich and poor women of this time were locked into a strange and pernicious symbiosis, and a vital warning against social inequality