Why we have them I can’t think
Rosemary Hill: ‘Mrs Woolf and the Servants’, 16 August 2007
Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service
by Alison Light.
Fig Tree, 376 pp., £20, August 2007,978 0 670 86717 2 Show More
by Alison Light.
Fig Tree, 376 pp., £20, August 2007,
“... a limit to what she can achieve’ as a writer, is more debatable. Born in 1882, the young Virginia Stephen grew up in a society in which service, either giving or receiving it, was the defining relationship of domestic life, particularly for women. By 1850, Light tells us, 80 per cent of servants were female and they were mostly answerable to ... ”