Square Haunting: Five Lives in London Between the Wars | 
Row 1: buddy reads- finished section for White Out; started sections for the other two books
Row 2: at various stages in reading
Row 3: finished the first 2 books, reading poems at leisure; listening to audiobook.
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Our next #buddyread is Francesca Wade‘s 2020 group biography examining the lives of five trailblazing women between the wars including our Virginia.
https://www.the bailliegiffordprize.co.uk/books-and-authors/square-haunting-by-francesca -wade
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#VirginiaBloomsberries
Our next #buddyread is Francesca Wade's 2020 group biography examining the lives of five trailblazing women between the wars, including our Virginia.
https://www.thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/books-and-authors/square-haunting-by-fr...
All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.
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This was an amazing discovery. I‘m always in awe of writers who not only create works in different forms but can also do translations. From what I have discovered in other books, I‘m thinking Dante was not easy to translate.
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade is lined up for next months #VirginiaBloomsberries. I started reading it and 😍. This is a #nfnov, a #nonfiction that covers the lives of 5 women, three of whom are HD (Hilda Doolittle), Dorothy L Sayers and Virginia Woolf.
#bookmail is the best mail ! The tagged book is definitely a blame it on Litsy ! Browsing the books I found the The Hanging on Union Square, looked fascinating,to me anyway!
One of my favorite reads from 2020. See comments for short video with Wade talking about the book from Mecklenburgh Square.
#OminousOctober #Haunted
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pickA feminist overview of five non conforming women living in a London square in the first half of the 20 century (not at the same time).Some more famous than others but all trying desperately to be independent.
Enjoyed this 👍🏻
pick4.75 ⭐
Not sure if it was me (tired easily atm), or the book but for some parts I kept drifting off. However, I did learn about H D, Jane Harrison & Eileen Power so still a pick.
#2020 #192025 @Librarybelle
Do you think I could use it for #nonpatriarchalsociety #pop22 #booked2022? Some of the women did get married but the emphasis is very much 'A Room of One's Own'. @Cinfhen @squirrelbrain @Kalalalatja @Cortg @Laughterhp @Megabooks @KarenUK
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Every time I read Harry Potter I discover something new!
Nonfiction, women's history, London
Tagging @Cinfhen @sprainedbrain @squirrelbrain @RaeLovesToRead @PuddleJumper
🎄Christmas Haul Part One with a distinct Bloomsbury theme. I recently bought an annotated Mrs. Dalloway so have some Woolf 2022 reading goals.
Has anyone read either of these? I‘d love to hear your thoughts/reviews on them.
#christmasbooks #bookhaul #virginiawoolf #bloomsbury
pickMecklenburgh Square, Bloomsbury (London). The interwar years. A time and a place bursting with intellectuals and authors. Wade focuses her attention on five of its residents: H. D., Dorothy L. Sayers, Jane Ellen Harrison, Eileen Power and Virginia Wolf. Apart from Wolf I hadn‘t heard about any of these. In their own ways they all defied the Victorian notion of the woman as “the Angel of the house”. They were authors and travelers and professors.
I‘m just starting this and think it‘s going to be just my kind of book.
I didn't know this. How scary.
I now have an ear worm
# Always find me in the kitchen at parties...🎉😂🎤
You cannot unroll that snowball...
Fascinating collective bio - Jane Harrison, a classics scholar I'd never heard of before.
Extremely short, with wide-rimmed horn glasses, Alexei Remizov spoke in a friends primarily remembered his mischievous grin. Occasionally he wore a wizard's hat he had fashioned himself, and he was known to leave the house with a monkey's tail protruding from a slit in his jacket. Harrison.... was fascinated by his work.
(Illustration by Remizov from the web)
Sayers never expected Gaudy Night to achieve commercial success. Whether you advertise it as a love-story, or as educational propaganda, or as a lunatic freak, I leave to you,' wrote Sayers to her publisher, Victor Gollancz.
One of my favourite books.
Cournos didn't want to marry Sayers, and told her as much; but he let it be known that he wanted to have sex, using protection. Sayers had qualms...
Interesting to hear the RL inspiration (I am assuming) to Harriet Vane's first beau.
I‘m on one of the final chapters of this book, and it‘s been a delightful read. I‘ve got my tea and I‘m wearing pants! Actual pants! It‘s a cool and clear 20 Celsius, and just the loveliest evening.
Happy weekend! Two of my favourite things are London and Virginia Woolf.
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#MarvelousMay #gratitude #keeplitsypositive
I splurged and supported one of my CT indie bookshops, RJJulia Booksellers. My package was accompanied by a thoughtful postcard of thanks. It also arrived quickly! Suare Haunting was featured on their website- looked right up my alley to be clicheish (made up word?). 📚😁
Also on offer on kindle - Q9.98 - and I was in as soon as it said group biography of women in London between the wars, even before I read that one of them was Dorothy L Sayers!
Thinking about how the women saw themselves before success was assured.
A small Book Depository “haul”. Square Haunting is a group biography about 5 women who lived in Mecklenburgh Square near Bloomsbury- H.D. The poet, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jane Ellen Harrison classicist and translator, Eileen Power historian Broadcaster and pacifist and Virginia Woolf. Hope this is as good as it sounds.
I gave up my subscription.
Still sell it in the supermarket, though...
pickThis unusual book feels a bit like psychogeographical biography. The author takes a specific location--Mecklenburgh Square in London--as the structural conceit to write what amounts to five mini-biographies about famous (or once-famous/now-lost) women writers, artists, activists, and revolutionaries in the early 20th c. If you enjoy deeply researched biography, this is "Five for the price of one." Received a #netgalley copy for an honest review.
Next #netgalley ARC!
Next ebook from #netgalley - the prologue has already sucked me in!
