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.
“Riveting . . . vividly written . . . Wade offers us a timely
invitation to join our literary foremothers in their rebellious
journeys to achieve creative freedom and world harmony.”—Blanche
Wiesen Cook, The New York Times Book Review
“Fascinating . . . In telling their stories—which collide, overlap
and echo one another—Wade follows the messy, inspiring destinies of
women who fought to rise above social restrictions, oppressive
notions of femininity and the condescension of men who were nearly
always their inferiors.” —NPR “Fresh Air”
“Square Haunting is at once a tribute to Virginia Woolf’s powerful
concept of a woman’s need for a room of her own, and an exploration
of the contradictions and messy compromises so often involved in
fulfilling that need. . . . A very readable and enjoyable
book.”—Margaret Drabble, The New Statesman
“Captivating . . . superb . . . Wade has pulled off a
remarkable feat of intellectual and social history with her erudite
yet juicy first book. . . . An engaging narrative, movingly
bookended by descriptions of the obliteration of a world she so
vividly evokes. . . . This impressive feminist history stands
as an elegiac love letter to a bygone time and place that offered
brilliant, iconoclastic women a unique opportunity for freedom and
self-expression.”—Wall Street Journal
“Endlessly interesting, unshowy, tightly argued and large-hearted.
. . . The women’s characters and situations leap off the page,
helped by the kind of details—from interior décor to what they
wore—that bring prose alive. . . . Wade reframes half a
century of supposedly familiar literary and intellectual history
and illustrates everything Woolf meant by ‘a room of one’s
own’.”—Aida Edemariam, The Guardian
“Powerful . . . Just as Harrison and Power rewrote history to
include the lives of forgotten women, so Wade reestablishes the
importance of thinkers like Power and H.D., whose legacies have
been eclipsed by those of their male contemporaries.”—The New
Yorker
“Serious, stylish . . . It 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.”—Laura Freeman, The
Times
“Rich and powerful.”—Ruth Franklin, Harper’s
"Original and erudite. . . . Wade is adept at evoking the gritty
texture of the times, taking us seamlessly from the interior lives
of her subjects into the world they inhabited and back again. . . .
Wade distils half a century of social and literary history into
these five women’s lives with a marvellously light touch. This is
biography as fresh and engaging as you are likely to find."—Ariane
Bankes, The Spectator
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