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Mrs. Woolf and the Servants
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury | Alison Light
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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.
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"'We pour to the edge of a precipice,' [Virginia] wrote in her diary, 'and then? I cant conceive that there will be a 27th June 1941.'"
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"Virginia rowed with Ethel [Smyth] and wrote furiously to her, condemning her as...'living in a mid-Victorian dentist's waiting room of emotional falsity'" ?⚰

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Today in odd similes, courtesy of Virginia Woolf's correspondence.

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"[T]he writer Rebecca West thought Virginia always looked as if she had been pulled through a hedge backwards."

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A gift from a wonderful friend a behind the scenes look at Virginia Woolf &her servants What it was like to be a domestic servant in a world gone by.

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It's getting a bit too autumnal and chilly in my part of the world for much #readingoutside, but I popped out into my yard and read a few sentences just for this challenge. I take my Litsy-ing VERY seriously. 😉 #SomethingforSept

DebinHawaii Thank you for your dedication! 👍 It looks like a great place to read in warmer weather. 😀 8y
CoffeeAndABook 😂😂😂 8y
KVanRead Looks like a beautiful spot! 8y
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Simona This is a real commitment!👏 8y
Zelma Way to commit! I like your enthusiasm. 😂 8y
DGRachel Beautiful! 8y
tpixie Beautiful scenery!! 8y
LauraBeth Pretty! 😀 8y
MrBook That's your YARD?! It looks like the manicured grounds of a major estate or library or museum or something 😎👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. 8y
LeahBergen @MrBook Ha!! Well, I wouldn't go THAT far but thank you! 😂 8y
MrBook Well, in this pic it does 😆😜! 8y
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Book mail! This one arrived today (hmm... it would have been a good fit for yesterday's #workplacebooks). I'm carrying on with my recent Bloomsbury obsession and about to pour myself a bev while I check out the new acquisition. #bookanddrink #somethingforsept @RealLifeReading #booksandbooze

shawnmooney Wow, what a fascinating perspective on her and the entire Bloomsbury Group! 8y
LeahBergen @shawnmooney I know! Doesn't it seem great? I have high hopes for this one. Virginia Woolf had a lot of diary entries about battling with her servants. 8y
Hobbinol I'm truly intrigued... I'll look forward to hearing about this book! 8y
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katedensen This is eighty kinds of excellent. 👍🏻👏🏻👍🏻 8y
LeahBergen @Hobbinol It does sound intriguing, doesn't it? I hope to start it in earnest soon (but you know how THAT is 😉) 8y
LeahBergen @katedfisher Thank you! 😀 8y
MrBook All of that came with the book?! 😆😉👍🏻 8y
LeahBergen @MrBook Yes. It's my monthly "Book 'n Booze Box" subscription. ? 8y
katedensen @LeahBergen @MrBook Ok, but wait. "Booze 'n Book Box" should totally be a thing. 8y
MrBook @katedfisher #BoozeNBookBox should definitely be a thing 😎👍🏻. You ladies up for the task or what? 😉 8y
LeahBergen @MrBook @katedfisher It really should. Hmm... we may be on to something here 😂 8y
katedensen @LeahBergen @MrBook I could not be more serious when I say, "Yes, let's do this." 8y
MrBook @BookBabe will want in, of course ?, so we should call our company "3 Gals & A Guy" and have the "BoozeNBook Box Subscription Service" ???. 8y
LeahBergen @MrBook @katedfisher I'm in Canada so you guys will have to take care of the American side (unless we want to replicate the old Prohibition, rum-running days of the '20s 😉). 8y
katedensen @LeahBergen I had no idea! Where in Canada? @MrBook Of course we're including @BookBabe -- is that even a real question? And yes to both the company and subscription name 👍🏻🍷📖 8y
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