Square Haunting

Wade, Francesca

ISBN 10: 0571330657 / ISBN 13: 9780571330652

Published by Faber & Faber, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Square Haunting
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571330657
• ISBN 13: 9780571330652
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

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.