Life as We Have Known it

Author: Margaret Llewelyn Davies
ISBN: 0393007723

A first-hand record of working class women's 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 miner's wife concerned about the colliery baths, and how they became politically active through the Women's Co-operative Guild movement. Virginia Woolf's essay contains her candid and searching reflections on the Guild's 1913 Congress, the women who spoke there, and the differences between their lives and hers.

Publisher: Norton
Publish Date: 1931

Subjects: History / General, Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: History)