Francesca Wade

Francesca Wade (born 1989) is a British biographer and literary critic.

She was Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, ^[1] Jean Strouse Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and Donald C. Gallup Fellow in American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library. ^[2] Her debut book Square Haunting was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. ^[3]

Her work has appeared in the Apollo Magazine, ^[4] The New York Times, ^[5] New York Review of Books, ^[6] London Review of Books, ^[7] Paris Review, ^[8] and Granta. ^[9]

Early life and education

Francesca Wade was born in 1989 and is from North London. Wade attended North London Collegiate School, completing her A Levels in 2008. She went on to study classics at Brasenose College, Oxford. ^{[10] [11] [12]}

Works

• Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (2020) ^{[13] [14] [15] [16]}
• Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife (2025). ^{[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]}

References

1. "Francesca Wade". Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
2. "Francesca Wade". Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 12 July 2024. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
3. Wilk |, Rona. "Artificial Constructs: PW Talks with Francesca Wade". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
4. Wade, Francesca. "Francesca Wade". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
5. "Francesca Wade - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
6. "Francesca Wade". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
7. Wade, Francesca. "Francesca Wade". London Review of Books. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
8. "Francesca Wade". The Paris Review. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
9. "Francesca Wade". Granta. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
10. "Francesca Wade: this is the ultimate book about 1960s New York". The Sunday Times. 24 May 2025. Retrieved 26 December 2025.
11. "Matriculations" (PDF). The Brazen Nose. September 2008. Retrieved 26 December 2025.
12. "Academic Report: Francesca Wade (2008)". ONLine. North London Collegiate School. 2012. p. 4. Retrieved 26 December 2025.
13. Thomas-Corr, Johanna (12 January 2020). "Square Haunting by Francesca Wade review – female autonomy between the wars". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 16 December 2025.
14. Deller, Rose (5 March 2020). "Book Review: Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade - LSE Review of Books". LSE Review of Books - the latest social science books reviewed by academics and experts. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
15. "Book Review: Square Haunting". The Modernist Review. 1 May 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
16. "Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade". www.publishersweekly.com. 31 January 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
17. "A Spectacle and Nothing Strange". Los Angeles Review of Books. 8 October 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
18. Thurman, Judith (29 September 2025). "Gertrude Stein's Love Language". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 10 December 2025.
19. Hughes, Kathryn (26 May 2025). "Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife by Francesca Wade – how a literary legend was made". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 10 December 2025.
20. Dunkle, Iris Jamahl (9 October 2025). "Finding Lost Voices: A New Biography about Gertrude Stein by Francesca Wade". Finding Lost Voices. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
21. Rothfeld, Becca (17 October 2025). "'Gertrude Stein' is an enthralling look at a writer and her reputation". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 December 2025.

External links

• Official website
• "Francesca Wade". Biographers International Organization. 21 November 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.