Alison Light

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1) Mrs Woolf and the servants

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Publisher

Fig Tree

Pub. Date

2007

Language

English

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Using Virginia Woolf and four of her servants as a jumping off point, Alison Light explores the extraordinary world of the domestic servant in the first half of the 20th century.

2) Common people: the history of an English family

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Publisher

Penguin Books

Pub. Date

2015

Language

English

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Family history is a massive phenomenon of our times but what are we after when we go in search of our ancestors? Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond. Epic in scope and deep in feeling, 'Common People' is a family history but also a new kind of public history, following the lives of the migrants who travelled the country...