A review by kjboldon
Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade

4.0

Really enjoyed this group biography linked by geography and the period between the wars. Of the five, I'd only heard of HD, Sayers and Woolf. The sections on Sayers and Eileen Power were my favorites. This is like a scrapbook, snapshots of their lives at a particular place and point in time. I especially enjoyed the aspects of how hard they all had to hustle to live a life of the mind and by the pen. Their love affairs were often forgettable, but the tiny supports that women gave to one another, like Woolf's nod to Harrison in A Room of One's Own, were quiet delights: "small moments which have shown how these figures, too, were quietly bolstered by the examples of other women--including, in some cases, each other." (319)