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“alison light”

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  • Common People

    In Pursuit of My Ancestors

    by Alison Light ...
    "Family history begins with missing persons," Alison Light writes in Common People. We wonder about those we've lost, and those we never knew, about the long skein that led to us, and to here, and to now. So we start exploring.Most of us, however, give up a few generations back. We run into a gap, get embarrassed by a ne'er-do-well, or simply find our ancestors are less glamorous than we'd hoped. ... Read more

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  • Mrs. Woolf and the Servants

    An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury

    by Alison Light ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Forever England

    Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars

    by Alison Light ...
    Most studies of the interwar years have focussed upon literary elites, rendering that past and its literature in almost exclusively male terms. In Forever England Alison Light argues that we cannot make sense of Englishness in the period, or understand the changes within literary culture, unless we recognise the extent to which the female population represented the nation between the wars.From the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Lost World of British Communism

    by Raphael Samuel, Alison Light ...
    A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great BritainThe Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Victorian City

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  • Behind Closed Doors

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  • Virginia Woolf (Authors in Context)

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