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Mrs Woolf and the Servants

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Publisher's Synopsis

Virginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants - cooking, cleaning and keeping house - she might never have managed to write.

Mrs Woolf and The Servants explores the hidden history of service. Through Virginia Woolf's extensive diaries and letters and brilliant detective work, Alison Light chronicles the lives of those forgotten women who worked behind the scenes in Bloomsbury, and their fraught relations with one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

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Penguin Books

The first ten paperback Penguin books appeared in 1935 costing 6d each (the price of a packet of cigarettes). Since then the Penguin list has developed enormously, but still aims to bring the best writing to the widest possible audience. Penguin Paperbacks now range from Booker Prize-winning contemporary authors, to mass market bestsellers, with successful history, biography and general non-fiction as well.

Book information

ISBN: 9780140254105
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.912
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 376
Weight: 276g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 26mm
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