Square Haunting (eBook)

Francesca Wade (Autor)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-33067-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS) **LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE** '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 Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar 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 writer and publisher Virginia Woolf. They each alighted there seeking a space where they could live, love and, above all, work independently. Francesca Wade's spellbinding group biography explores how these trailblazing women pushed the boundaries of literature, scholarship, and social norms, forging 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 - moving and immersive.' EDMUND GORDON

Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement,Financial Times, Paris Review, the Guardian,New Statesman, Frieze and Prospect. She is outgoing editor of the White Review and a recipient of a Robert B Silvers Grant for Work in Progress and a 2020-21 Fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. Her first book, Square Haunting, was a Sunday Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year, a Guardian Best Book of the Year (As Chosen by Authors), and was longlisted for the Baille Gifford Prize.

Autor

lt;b>Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, New Statesman and Prospect. She is editor of The White Review, and winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize. Square Haunting is her first book. She lives in London.

Rezensionen

lt;b>Elegant, erudite and absorbing, Square Haunting is a startlingly original debut, and Francesca Wade is a writer to watch.

Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.

[I]t is a pleasure to fall into step with the eloquent, elegant Wade as she stamps the streets of literary London. I would give a copy to every young woman graduating from university and wondering who and how to be ... There is much to inspire.

Enchanting ... Vividly written ... Riveting ... A timely invitation to join our literary foremothers in their rebellious journeys to achieve creative freedom and world harmony.

The women's characters and situations leap off the page, helped by the kind of details - from interior decor to what they wore - that bring prose alive ... It is a measure of their vividness, and the depth of Wade's research, that these figures far outshine TS Eliot, DH Lawrence, Freud and Keynes ... Endlessly interesting, unshowy, tightly argued and large-hearted.

A fascinating voyage through the lives of five remarkable women - moving and immersive.

In following the lives of these five extraordinary women, Francesca Wade pursues questions about love, community, friendship and intellectual work in times of crisis. A beautiful and deeply moving book.

Very readable and enjoyable . . . vividly evoked.

I much enjoyed Francesca Wade's book. It almost made me wish I belonged to the pioneering generation of women spoiling eggs on the gas ring and breaking taboos.

A terrific book - riveting.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Among the Bohemians • At the Existentialist Café • Bloomsbury • Dorothy Sayers • group biographies • Lauren Elkin • Olivia Laing • Sarah Bakewell • Virginia Woolf
• ISBN-10: 0-571-33067-3 / 0571330673
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33067-6 / 9780571330676