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A review by swarnak84
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
2.0
Five interesting women, with tangential links, but using Mecklenberg Square to link them just isn't cohesive.
I would rate the Dorothy L Sayers and Eileen Power chapters as 4* and I very much enjoyed them, however, they seemed appetisers to finding out more. I struggled through the HD chapter, Jane Harrison perhaps should have been the first chapter. As for Virginia Woolf - I feel her inclusion is a marketing gimmick for the book as the author could never hope to cover her in any depth here. Perhaps she should have been left to drift in and out of the other women's lives and experiences without having a Chapter of her own.
I would rate the Dorothy L Sayers and Eileen Power chapters as 4* and I very much enjoyed them, however, they seemed appetisers to finding out more. I struggled through the HD chapter, Jane Harrison perhaps should have been the first chapter. As for Virginia Woolf - I feel her inclusion is a marketing gimmick for the book as the author could never hope to cover her in any depth here. Perhaps she should have been left to drift in and out of the other women's lives and experiences without having a Chapter of her own.