Life as We Have Known It

ISBN: 0393007723

Author: Co-operative Women

Condition: New

You unlocked a drawer and took out a packet of papers. . . . Sometimes, you said, you got a letter which you could not bring yourself to burn; once or twice a Guildswoman had at your suggestion written a few pages about her life . . . -Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, describing the circumstances leading to the publication of Life as We Have Known It A first-hand record of working class womens experiences in early twentieth-century England, Life as We Have Known It is a unique view of lives Virginia Woolf described as still half hidden in profound obscurity. The women write about growing up in poverty, going into domestic service, being a hat factory worker, or a miners wife concerned about the colliery baths, and how they became politically active through the Womens Co-operative Guild movement. Virginia Woolfs essay contains her candid and searching reflections on the Guilds 1913 Congress, the women who spoke there, and the differences between their lives and hers.