Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury - Brossura

Light, Alison

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ISBN 10: 159691694X ISBN 13: 9781596916944

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2009

Riassunto

“Superbly researched, often passionately eloquent, and enthralling throughout.”—Washington Post Book World

When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One’s Own in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, and an advocate for unheard voices. But like thousands of other upper-class British women, Woolf relied on live-in domestic servants for the most intimate of daily tasks. That room of Woolf’s own was kept clean by a series of cooks and maids throughout her life. In the much-praised Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light probes the unspoken inequality of Bloomsbury homes with insight and grace, and provides an entirely new perspective on an essential modern artist.

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L'autore:

Alison Light is the author of Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars and edited Virginia Woolf’s Flush for Penguin Classics. She is currently a professor at the Raphael Samuel History Centre at the University of East London, and teaches English at Newcastle University. She is a contributor to the London Review of Books. Her grandmother worked as a domestic servant.

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Book by Light Alison

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 159691694X
• ISBN 13: 9781596916944
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 376