Francesca Wade
Author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars
About the Author
Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books,. The Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and Granta. She is editor of The White Review and a winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. She lives in London.
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- 340
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- 4.2
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- 11
- ISBNs
- 14
Once the biographies started, I was drawn in more and more. I was particularly fascinated to learn about Hilda Doolittle/HD, Ilene Power and Jane Harrison, as I had never heard of any of them before. I loved learning more about Dorothy Sayers (even though I could wish she loved Wimsey more), and I think the Virginia Woolf section was wonderfully focused on her work -- I like how much it talked about what she was doing and how she was dealing with her mental health, rather than writing her struggles off. On the whole, I thought the premise was a little wacky -- connecting via a space, but the interconnections really are astonishing, and I found the strength of the subjects inspiring.
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