Gertrude Stein

‘Endlessly interesting, unshowy, tightly argued and large-hearted.’, Guardian (on SQUARE HAUNTING)‘It is a pleasure to fall into step with the eloquent, elegant Wade … I would give a copy to every young woman graduating from university and wonder-ing who and how to be … There is much to inspire.’, The Times (on SQUARE HAUNTING)

Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (2020), which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and her work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Granta and other places. She lives in London.