Download or read book Life as We Have Known it written by Margaret Llewelyn Davies and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1975 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.