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Square Haunting

Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

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Square Haunting

Yazan: Francesca Wade
Seslendiren: Corrie James
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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 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 Haunting is a startlingly original debut, and Francesca Wade is a writer to watch." FRANCES WILSON

"A fascinating voyage through the lives of five remarkable women - a moving and immersive portrait." EDMUND GORDON

Illustrations by © Nina Figg©2020 Francesca Wade (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Art & Literature Authors Europe Great Britain Historical İngiltere
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Bit long but very interesting about forgotten talented women from a variety of backgrounds forming an intellectual web through the first half of the twentieth century.

Full of factual information

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Listened to this during lockdown and it was on the one hand escapist (and fascinating) and on the other quite comforting because the women endured war etc. Hard to explain, but perfect listening experience. Well read, too

Oddly comforting

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A very satisfying read, beautifully read. The author has written a fascinating narrative combining clever and revealing biography with London topography. I look forward very much to future books by Francesca Wade. I especially admire the way the author has shaped and constructed her book to provide such an absorbing read.

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Fabulous context & atmosphere. Lots of great information and things I didn’t know about these women writers!

A wonderful tapestry of Women’s lives!

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Relying solely on the audio for this book entails lacking interesting photographs of its various protagonists and the square itself. While Corrie James is a clear-voiced reader with a plummy voice suitably appropriate for conjuring the atmosphere of interwar Bloomsbury, she periodically mispronounces certain words that might easily have been remedied by input from someone at Whole Story Audio. I've made this comment before about Whole Story Audio productions and it seems they clearly don't employ anyone competent enough to advise otherwise good actors (and, as I say, James is quite a good reader in terms of expression and voice) on correct pronunciation. Words mispronounced and/or wrongly stressed here include Caius (as in the College), Gaudy (as in _Gaudy Nights_ -- which is mentioned a lot and grew increasingly annoying with repetition), clef (as in Roman à clef), Semele, harem, graduates (as noun), supine, and presage.

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