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

"Superbly researched often passionately eloquent and enthralling throughout."Washington Post Book World When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of Ones 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 Woolfs 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.