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About this book
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SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
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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
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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Prologue
- In the Square
- H. D.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Jane Ellen Harrison
- Eileen Power
- Virginia Woolf
- After the Square
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Text Permissions
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright