Cursed with hearts and brains

Five women writers in search of freedom

Margaret Jolliff, Mecklenburgh Square (1935) gouache on buff brown paper ©MutualArt

‘London itself’, wrote Virginia Woolf in 1928, ‘perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble save that of moving my legs through the streets.’ Francesca Wade’s Square Haunting: Five women, freedom and London between the wars