Mrs. Woolf and the servants
Subtitle: an intimate history of domestic life in Bloomsbury
By: Alison Light.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781596915602
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Employees.; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.; Women domestics -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Bloomsbury group.; Bloomsbury (London, England) -- Social life and customs.; Bloomsbury (London, England) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-358) and index.
Table of contents: value: The family treasure; value: Sophie Farrell and Julia Stephen; value: Miss Genia and Sophie Farrell; value: Housemaids' souls; value: Edith Sichel and Lottie Hope; value: Mrs Woolf, Mrs Bell and 'the click'; value: the question of Nelly; value: Virginia Woolf and Nellie Boxall; value: Memoirs of a lavatory attendant; value: Mrs Woolf and 'Mrs Gape'; value: Afterlives.