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Mrs Woolf And The ServantsStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionVirginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write. AwardsCommended for Samuel Johnson Prize 2008. Shortlisted for Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2008. ReviewsFascinating, beautifully written and meticulously researched Literary Review An absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery The Independent Offers us an invaluable glimpse into the hidden history of domestic service in an absorbing narrative, beautifully written with the sensibility of a poet The Times 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 Telegraph Author description? |