Square haunting: five women, freedom and London between the wars
✍ Scribed by Bloomsbury (London, England) / Intellectual life / 20th century;Doolittle, Hilda;H. D / Hilda Doolittle) /;Harrison, Jane Ellen;Jane Ellen / Harrison;Eileen / Power;Power, Eileen Edna;Sayers, Dorothy L.;Dorothy L / (Dorothy Leigh) / Sayers;Wade, Francesca;Woolf, Virginia;Virginia / Woolf
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 0571330657
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✦ Synopsis
'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' Sarah Bakewell
'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' Sally Rooney
'I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925
In London during the interwar years, five women's lives intertwined around one address. Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of 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 author and publisher Virginia Woolf. In an era when women's freedoms were fast expanding, they each sought a space where they couldlive, love and - above all - work independently.
From the square, these trailblazing women pushed the boundaries of scholarship, literary form and social norms. Taking us...
✦ Subjects
Bloomsbury (London, England) / Intellectual life / 20th century