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Mrs. Woolf And The Servants: An Intimate History Of Domestic Life In Bloomsbury (2008)

by Alison Light(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1596915609 (ISBN13: 9781596915602)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bloomsbury Press

review 1: A fantastic book about the in service class and one literary giant's odd relationship with her servants.When Woolf married, her family servants came with the deal.These women knew Virginia Woolf quite well, enough so they were a constant thorn in the writer's side.Essentially, Virginia Woolf spent the entire Great War writing to her sister and bitching about her servants.Remarkable.
review 2: I was most interested in the state of domestics in England before WWI and then afterwards when I purchased this book. Very good in covering the changes then in general and in the life of Woolf and her domestic servants in particular. Now, having reread Mrs. Dalloway, I went back to see if there are pages that are reflective of the time Virginia Woolf was writing Mrs. Dal... moreloway and there are, I am glad to report. So aparently there are various approaches to the impetus to read this book. Somehow Woolf is rendered a more complete person as revealed as a minor but central element in this account when compared to the accounts of her that only focus on her as a writer. less

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