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"""Before Mecklenburgh Square, in Bloomsbury, was bombed during the Blitz, five women pathbreakers--including Virginia Woolf, the poet Hilda Doolittle, and the novelist Dorothy Sayers--lived there at one time or another, a coincidence Wade mines to appealing effect to tell their stories."" -- ""New York Times Book Review"" ""Francesca Wade's luminous group biography restores a female voice to London's streets, revealing five unforgettable characters who forged careers and identities that would have been impossible without these rooms of their own...An era that gave birth to a new modes of working, loving, and being."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"""

Before Mecklenburgh Square, in Bloomsbury, was bombed during the Blitz, five women pathbreakers--including Virginia Woolf, the poet Hilda Doolittle, and the novelist Dorothy Sayers--lived there at one time or another, a coincidence Wade mines to appealing effect to tell their stories. -- New York Times Book Review Francesca Wade's luminous group biography restores a female voice to London's streets, revealing five unforgettable characters who forged careers and identities that would have been impossible without these rooms of their own...An era that gave birth to a new modes of working, loving, and being. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Corrie James has worked on both sides of the Atlantic in theater, radio, and audiobooks. She credits growing up listening to the BBC for her love of the spoken word. Her audiobooks include The Companion of Lady Holmeshire by Debra Brown and Remember Me by Trezza Azzopardi. Francesca Wade has written for publications including the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, New Statesman, and Prospect. She is editor of the White Review and a winner of the Biographers' Club Tony Lothian Prize.

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