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 One's 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 Woolf's 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.