Square Haunting : Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars 弗朗西斯卡·韦德：女性如何书写历史：战火下的伦敦、五位女房客和自由先声 Francesca Wade

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Format:Paperback / softback 432 pages

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Imprint:Faber & Faber

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571330669

Published:24 Dec 2020

Classifications:Biography: arts & entertainment, Biography: literary, British & Irish history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:350g

Dimensions:130 x 198 x 31 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

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书籍简介

作为《星期日泰晤士报》年度文学非小说类图书，《卫报》年度图书（由作者选择）**BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE长名单****，RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE短名单**'杰出。我全年都会推荐这本书。SARAH BAKEWELL'这是一本美丽的、令人深深感动的书。萨利-罗尼'我喜欢这种伦敦生活。

...在街上闲逛和在广场上闲逛。弗吉尼亚-伍尔夫，日记，1925年梅克伦堡广场，位于战时布鲁姆斯伯里的激进边缘，是活动家、实验者和革命者的家；其中有现代主义诗人H.D.、侦探小说家多萝西-L.

Sayers、古典主义作家Jane Harrison、经济史学家Eileen Power以及作家兼出版商弗吉尼亚-伍尔夫。他们每个人都在那里寻求一个可以独立生活、爱和重要的工作的空间。弗朗西斯卡-韦德的这本引人入胜的团体传记探讨了这些开拓性的女性是如何推动文学、学术和社会规范的界限的，她们所开创的事业如果没有这些属于她们自己的房间是不可能的。

优雅、博学、引人入胜，《广场闹事》是一部令人震惊的原创处女作，弗朗西斯卡-韦德是一位值得关注的作家。弗朗西斯-威尔逊："通过五位杰出女性的生活进行了一次迷人的旅行--令人感动和沉浸。EDMUND GORDON

A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS)**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE**'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' SARAH BAKEWELL'A beautiful and deeply moving book.' SALLY ROONEY'I like this London life . .

. the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L.

Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and writer and publisher Virginia Woolf. They each alighted there seeking a space where they could live, love and, above all, work independently. Francesca Wade's spellbinding group biography explores how these trailblazing women pushed the boundaries of literature, scholarship, and social norms, forging careers that would have been impossible without these rooms of their own.

'Elegant, erudite and absorbing, Square Haunting is a startlingly original debut, and Francesca Wade is a writer to watch.' FRANCES WILSON'A fascinating voyage through the lives of five remarkable women - moving and immersive.' EDMUND GORDON

作家简介

弗朗西斯卡-韦德曾为《伦敦书评》、《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《金融时报》、《巴黎评论》、《卫报》、《新政治家》、《Frieze》和《展望》等出版物撰稿。她是《白色评论》的离任编辑，也是罗伯特-B-西尔弗斯工作进展资助和莱昂-利维传记中心2020-21年奖学金的获得者。她的一本书《广场闹鬼》是《星期日泰晤士报》年度文学非虚构书，《卫报》年度图书（由作者选择），入围贝勒-吉福德奖长名单，并入围RSL翁达杰奖。Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, Paris Review, the Guardian, New Statesman, Frieze and Prospect. She is outgoing editor of the White Review and a recipient of a Robert B Silvers Grant for Work in Progress and a 2020-21 Fellowship at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. Her first book, Square Haunting, was a Sunday Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year, a Guardian Best Book of the Year (As Chosen by Authors), was longlisted for the Baille Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.