{"product_id":"mrs-woolf-and-the-servants-9780140254105","title":"Mrs Woolf and the Servants","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf was a feminist and a bohemian but without her servants  cooking, cleaning and keeping house  -  she might never have managed to write.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMrs Woolf and The Servants\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFascinating, beautifully written and meticulously researched * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eAn absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery * The Independent *\u003cbr\u003eOffers 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA 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 *\u003cbr\u003eAn absorbing investigation, serious, radical and feminist in its politics, entertaining in its delivery * The Independent *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138099249495,"sku":"9780140254105","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140254105.jpg?v=1751917986","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mrs-woolf-and-the-servants-9780140254105","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}