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'I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925In 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 could live, love and - above all - work independently.From the square, these trailblazing women pushed the boundaries of scholarship, literary form and social norms. Taking us into the emotional texture of their lives, Francesca Wade's luminous group biography reveals five unforgettable characters who forged careers that would have been impossible without these rooms of their own.'Elegant, erudite and absorbing, Square (PDF) eBooks Square Haunting: Five Lives in London Between the Wars : https://incledger.com/?book=B07WH9ZG94 #AMZBOOKS, #PDB, #NICEBOOKS2020

'I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925In 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 could live, love and - above all - work independently.From the square, these trailblazing women pushed the boundaries of scholarship, literary form and social norms. Taking us into the emotional texture of their lives, Francesca Wade's luminous group biography reveals five unforgettable characters who forged careers that would have been impossible without these rooms of their own.'Elegant, erudite and absorbing, Square

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Square Haunting: Five Lives in London Between the

Wars

'I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.'

Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925In 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 could live, love and - above all -

work independently.From the square, these trailblazing women pushed

the boundaries of scholarship, literary form and social norms. Taking us

into the emotional texture of their lives, Francesca Wade's luminous

group biography reveals five unforgettable characters who forged

careers that would have been impossible without these rooms of their


own.'Elegant, erudite and absorbing, Square

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