Mrs. Woolf and the servants: an intimate history of domestic life in Bloomsbury

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.