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Author:
Francesca Wade
Publisher:
Tim Duggan Books
Date:
April 7, 2020
In the pivotal era between the two world wars, the lives of five remarkable women intertwined at one address: modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and author and publisher Virginia Woolf. In an era when womenâs freedoms were fast expanding, they each sought a space where they could live, love, andâabove allâwork independently.
What The Reviewers Say
... vividly written.
Francesca Wade, a London-based writer and literary editor, has pulled off a remarkable feat of intellectual and social history with her erudite yet juicy first book. In a captivating series of minibiographies of five women, all trailblazing writers who lived in Bloomsbury’s Mecklenburgh Square at some point between 1916 and 1940, Square Haunting builds a compelling case that each woman’s time there represented a crucial stage in her efforts to forge an independent life when doing so was both uncommon and difficult.
...rich and powerful.
The book coheres remarkably well. The five women's lives overlapped in fascinating ways.
