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SERVICE WERE THE BLOOMSBURY SERVANTS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? WONDERS JANE RIDLEY

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20070812
Author:JANE RIDLEY

Mrs Woolf and the Servants

BY ALISON LIGHT

FIG TREE/PENGUIN, pounds 20, 376 pp

T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115

So many books have been written about Virginia Woolf that it's hard to get excited about the appearance of yet another plump volume. But Alison Light's new book is different: this is the story of Woolf and her family from the bottom up - the servant's eye view.

Virginia Woolf was a feminist and she championed the rights of women, but in her eyes equal rights apparently did not extend to servants. As a glance at her diaries reveals, Woolf was obsessed by her servants. ...

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