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Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars Audiobook
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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.
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“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…An era that gave birth to a new modes of working, loving, and being.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Before Mecklenburgh Square, in Bloomsbury, was bombed during the Blitz, five women pathbreakers—including Virginia Woolf, the poet Hilda Doolittle, and the novelist Dorothy Sayers—lived there at one time or another, a coincidence Wade mines to appealing effect to tell their stories.”
— New York Times Book Review
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About Francesca Wade
Francesca Wade is the author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife and Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars. She is a winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, the Leon Levy Center for Biography, and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute Her writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Paris Review, Granta, and elsewhere.
About Corrie James
Corrie James has worked on both sides of the Atlantic in theater, radio, and audiobooks. She credits growing up listening to the BBC for her love of the spoken word. Her audiobooks include The Companion of Lady Holmeshire by Debra Brown and Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi.