Square Haunting
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Square Haunting

Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

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eBook - ePub

Square Haunting

Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

About this book

A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS)
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE**

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE**

'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' SARAH BAKEWELL
'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' SALLY ROONEY

' 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.

'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 - moving and immersive.' EDMUND GORDON

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9780571330676
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Prologue
  8. In the Square
  9. H. D.
  10. Dorothy L. Sayers
  11. Jane Ellen Harrison
  12. Eileen Power
  13. Virginia Woolf
  14. After the Square
  15. Notes
  16. Select Bibliography
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Text Permissions
  19. Index
  20. About the Author
  21. Copyright