{"id":1724,"date":"2020-01-20T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T16:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress_test\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2021-01-19T11:49:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:49:40","slug":"five-women-mecklenburgh-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Five Women & Mecklenburgh Square"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just published and brought to my notice by The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, this interesting podcast from The Spectator<\/em><\/a> (and embedded below) informs further on Francesca Wade\u2019s just published first book Square Haunting <\/em>(Faber, January 2020).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the curious, the five eminent women are Virginia Woolf (writer, 1882\u20131941) Hilda Doolittle (or H.D. writer, poet 1886\u20131961), Dorothy L Sayers (writer, 1893\u20131957), Eileen Power (economist, historian 1889\u20131940) and Jane Harrison (classicist, 1850\u20131928), and the place is Mecklenburgh Square in Bloomsbury, London. Wade presumably explores the changing role of women at the beginning of the 20th century through these exemplary lives, and in doing so discovers shared aspects of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jane Ellen Harrison, Newnham College (Augustus John)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Without referring to either book or podcast, off the top of my head I actually know of one obscure more than crossing of paths, being that between Woolf and Harrison. Virginia Woolf\u2019s diaries (favourite often returned to reading of mine) reveal something of the relationship between her friend Hope Mirrlees and Mirrlees\u2019 former tutor and then partner Harrison \u2014 their shared domestic and working lives and travels abroad. The Woolfs\u2019 Hogarth Press <\/a>in fact published Harrison\u2019s memoirs in 1925.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, while Eileen Power<\/a> may draw a blank with some (or many) I have actually come across\u00a0Medieval English Nunneries<\/a>\u00a0in another context \u2026 but there must surely be more to tell, and I am looking forward to reading about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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