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Square Haunting: Francesca Wade & Alexandra Harris
Square Haunting: Francesca Wade & Alexandra Harris
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48 minutes
Released:
Jan 29, 2020
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Podcast episode
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In the period between the wars nearby Mecklenburgh Square was home to many artists, writers and radicals. In a stunning work of rediscovery Francesca Wade focuses on five remarkable women who lived there: the modernist poet and visionary H.D; crime writer and translator of Dante Dorothy L. Sayers; classicist Jane Harrison; economic historian Eileen Power; and writer and publisher Virginia Woolf. Co-editor of the White Review, Francesca Wade’s articles have appeared in the LRB, TLS, Financial Times, Prospect and New Statesman. Square Haunting is her first full-length book and is published by Faber.She was in conversation with Alexandra Harris, whose books include Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.Find out about upcoming events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/bookshopeventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Jan 29, 2020
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Podcast episode
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