MRS WOOLF AND THE SERVANTS by Alison Light ( 9780140254105 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

MRS WOOLF AND THE SERVANTS

By:

Alison Light

Format:

Paperback

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£15.99

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ISBN 10:

0140254102

ISBN 13:

9780140254105

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

7 August, 2008

Pages:

400

Description:

Through Virginia Woolf's, a feminist and a bohemian, extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, this title 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. It explores the hidden history of service.

Synopsis:

Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores 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.

Illustrations:

integrated b&w illustrations

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Imprint:

Penguin Books Ltd

Prizes:

Commended for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008 Short-listed for Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2008

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Returnable

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