Books written by Alison Light
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Forever England: Femininity, Literature, and Conservatism Between the Wars
... wrote extensively on Regency furniture and contributed to journals like Country Life, The Conoisseur and Architectural Review, her major work was a rehabilitation of William Kent, the landscape gardener and architect.
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Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors
“Family history begins with missing persons,” Alison Light writes in Common People.
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A Radical Romance: A Memoir of Love, Grief and Consolation
Alison Light met the radical social historian, Raphael Samuel, in London in 1986. Twenty years her senior, Raphael was a charismatic socialist from a very different background to Alison's working-class family.
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Common People: The History of an English Family
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.
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Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service
Mrs Woolf and the Servants is a riveting and highly original study of one of Britain s greatest literary modernists.
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Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors
"First published in 2014 by the Penguin Group"--Title page verso.
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Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury
In the much-praised Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light probes the unspoken inequality of Bloomsbury homes with insight and grace, and provides an entirely new perspective on an essential modern artist.
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Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
... Century Romance and Gothic Writers (Macmillan, London, 1982), p. 220. 7 Guardian, 20 April 1989; see also Michael Thornton, 'Secret jealousy of the real Rebecca', Observer, 23 April 1989, who claims that 'Daphne was anything but a romantic ...
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Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
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 ...