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

from Citizenjoyce

This is is a very complex treatment of Virginia Woolf's antipathy to servants due to her rather snobbish upbringing and her abhorrence of her body due to the sexual repression of the day and her own sexual assault by her half brothers. She hated being dependant on servants who represented to her ...

from JaneSteen

My own grandmother on my mother's side went into service at the age of 13 (this would have been in 1915). Perhaps it was a sign of the changing times that her mother allowed her to come home after a few weeks, because she hated the job. So this book was fascinating to me for several reasons. Firs...

from bookwoman247

This was an excellent biography of Virginia Woolf and od her servants. The author seems to have researched many aspects of her subjects thoroughly and well. The interaction between Virginia Woolf and her servants was fascinating , and gives a new perspective of her, making a subject that's been w...

from JaneSteen

My own grandmother on my mother's side went into service at the age of 13 (this would have been in 1915). Perhaps it was a sign of the changing times that her mother allowed her to come home after a few weeks, because she hated the job. So this book was fascinating to me for several reasons. Firs...

from Limelite

Light's literary exploration of the mutual dependency between Virginia Woolf and her live-in (exclusively female) domestic servants and, by extension, class exploration of that interdependency in British society at the turn of the last century, is revealing of the emotional angst it produced in t...