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Square Haunting

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Autobiography & Memoir
Unabridged   12 hour(s)
Publication date: 04/07/2020

Square Haunting

Five Writers in London Between the Wars

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684576630
Digital Download ISBN:9781684576623

Summary

Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, Mecklenburgh Square has borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. Square Haunting is a glorious portrait of five of the square's inhabitants: Hilda Doolittle, Dorothy Sayers, Jane Harrison, Eileen Power, and Virginia Woolf.

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Mecklenburgh Square has always been a radical address. Nestled in the heart of Bloomsbury, these townhouses have borne witness to the lives of some of the century's most revolutionary cultural figures—many of whom were extraordinary women. United by their desire to experiment with new ways of living—and therefore of being—these authors and thinkers were trailblazers in their commitment to creative independence.

Square Haunting is a glorious portrait of five of the square's inhabitants whose lives intersected in the interwar years: modernist poet and novelist Hilda Doolittle; crime writer Dorothy Sayers; celebrated classicist Jane Harrison; historian and suffragist Eileen Power; and Virginia Woolf. Francesca Wade's luminous group biography restores a female voice to London's streets, revealing five unforgettable characters who forged careers and identities that would have been impossible without these rooms of their own.

Roving across a time of historical upheaval, Wade takes us beyond the famed bohemian parties and political salons into the emotional texture and gender politics of daily life itself—and an era that gave birth to a new modes of working, loving, and being.

Reviews/Praise

“In following the lives of these five extraordinary women, Francesca Wade pursues questions about love, community, friendship, and intellectual work in times of crisis.”—Sally Rooney, author of Normal People

"Gripping. . . . A compelling study of the quest for creative freedom. . . . Wade is an astutely empathetic storyteller who never lets her considerable research get in the way of her elegant writing." —Ann Kennedy Smith, The Times Literary Supplement

Author Bio

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 a winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. She lives in London.