Alison Light
Auteur van Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury
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Alison Light is the author of the acclaimed Mrs. Woolf and the Servants. She is Honorary Professor in the Department of English at University College, London, and on the hoard of the Raphael Samuel History Centre in London.
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- 1955-08-04
- Geslacht
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- UK
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- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
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- Sussex University.
Cambridge University (Churchill College) - Beroepen
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- Samuel, Raphael (husband)
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- Alison Light is the author of Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism between the Wars and edited Virginia Woolf's Flush for Penguin Classics. She has worked at the BBC and lectured at London University. She is currently a part-time Professor at the Raphael Samuel History Centre in the University of East London and also teaches in the School of English at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She is a contributor to the London Review of Books. Her grandmother worked as a domestic servant.
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I think it is beautifully written, thoughtful and moving, but I can't feel totally objective about it, as I remember Raph as my aunt's partner in the early 1970s, when her children from her previous marriage were young and I was even younger. So I reserved a library copy as soon as I learned of the book's existence but was quite nervous of actually reading it.
The house where Light and Samuel lived was the same one where my aunt and cousins lived with him more than 10 years before the period covered by this memoir - it is an old house in Spitalfields, on the border of the City and East London (near Shoreditch and Bethnal Green), and it is an area with a rich history of its own. I was interested to realise that I can remember the odd shapes of house and the winding stairs down to the kitchen, and the noise of grinding coffee beans but not the toilet being outside!
The memoir is interesting for what she tells about the man, the relationship, the home etc, and for what is held back - it feels quite short at just over 200 pages and how quickly their 10 years together is over. I liked the dignity and the selectiveness of this - while the subject is someone very dear to my family, I think there is an art to choosing what to reveal and explore in a book of this kind.… (meer)