"When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, a woman who could imagine a more open and liberal reality, and an advocate for the female voice. Indeed the Bloomsbury set has often been identified with liberal, open-minded views; Woolf&...

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Main Author:	Light, Alison (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York Bloomsbury Press 2008
Edition:	1. US ed.
Subjects:	Woolf, Virginia > 1882-1941 > Employees Woolf, Virginia > 1882-1941 Geschichte 1900-2000 Alltag, Brauchtum Authors, English > 20th century > Biography Women domestics > Great Britain > Biography Bloomsbury group Hausgehilfin Großbritannien Bloomsbury (London, England) > Social life and customs Bloomsbury (London, England) > Biography Bloomsbury > London Biografie
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, a woman who could imagine a more open and liberal reality, and an advocate for the female voice. Indeed the Bloomsbury set has often been identified with liberal, open-minded views; Woolf's circle of artists and writers were considered Bohemians ahead of their time. But they were also of their time. Like thousands of other British households, Virginia Woolf's relied on live-in domestics for the most intimate of daily tasks. That room of her own she so valued was cleaned, heated, and supplied with meals by a series of cooks and maids throughout her childhood and adult life. In Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light gives depth and dignity to the long-overlooked servants who worked for the Bloomsbury intellectuals." -- Book jacket.
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-358) and index
Physical Description:	xxiii, 376 S. Ill. 25 cm
ISBN:	9781596915602 1596915609