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Square Haunting
Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
By: Francesca Wade
Paperback | 2 March 2021
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Five exceptional women; one London square. A spellbinding group biography by a luminous new talent.
'I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' - Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925
Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and writer and publisher Virginia Woolf. They each alighted there seeking a space where they could live, love and, above all, work independently.
Francesca Wade's spellbinding group biography explores how these trailblazing women pushed the boundaries of literature, scholarship, and social norms, forging careers that would have been impossible without these rooms of their own.
About the Author
Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, New Statesman and Prospect. She is editor of The White Review, and winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. Square Haunting is her first book. She lives in London.
Industry Reviews
Sarah Bakewell
'A beautiful and deeply moving book.'
Sally Rooney
Elegant, erudite and absorbing, Square Haunting is a startlingly original debut, and Francesca Wade is a writer to watch.'
Frances Wilson
'A fascinating voyage through the lives of five remarkable women - a moving and immersive portrait.'
Edmund Gordon
ISBN: 9780571330669
ISBN-10: 0571330665
Published: 2nd March 2021
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Faber
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 3 x 12.9 x 19.7
Weight (kg): 0.35
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