Life as we have known it / by cooperative working women ; edited by Margaret Llewelyn Davies ; with an introductory letter by Virginia Woolf ; new introduction by Anna Davin.

This account of working women's lives - impoverished childhoods, humdrum work, harsh family life - was first published in 1931. The women who wrote this book were members of the Women's Co-operative Guild, a powerful agent in the education of working women.