Ariane Bankes

Five bluestockings in one Bloomsbury square

Virginia Woolf, H.D. and Dorothy L. Sayers were among the talented women seeking a room of their own between the wars in Mecklenburgh Square

issue 18 January 2020

  • Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars

    Francesca Wade

    Faber, pp. 405, £20

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