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Square Haunting by Francesca Wade review – female autonomy between the wars
And as Wade discovered when she stumbled by chance upon this small, leafy enclave six years ago, Mecklenburgh Square was home to five radical female writers at various times between the world wars. “At last, here was a district of the city where a room of one’s own could be procured,” Wade says, echoing Woolf. Her book takes its title from a 1925 diary entry, in which Woolf extols the pleasures of “street sauntering and square haunting”. My hero: Jane Ellen Harrison Read moreEleven years after Harrison’s death, her friend Virginia Woolf took up residence at Mecklenburgh Square during the outbreak of the second world war. • Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade is published by Faber (£20).
Source: The Guardian January 12, 2020 06:56 UTC
