[Vwoolf] A Bloomsbury real-estate article

[Harish Trivedi]

​And "throwing"?  Would she ever do that? ​

Harish Trivedi



On 26 October 2017 at 13:28, Stuart N. Clarke <
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

> “In the opening pages of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway, the
> protagonist Clarissa Dalloway contemplates her life as she walks through
> the streets of Bloomsbury on a sun-dappled June morning, going to buy
> flowers for the society party she’s throwing.”
>
> No, she doesn’t walk through Bloomsbury.
>
> Stuart
>
> *From:* Neverow, Vara S.
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 25, 2017 9:42 PM
> *To:* vwoolf listserve
> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] A Bloomsbury real-estate article
>
>
> Below is a guide to living in Bloomsbury (if you can afford it).
>
>
>
> The article uses the contested moniker Bloomsbury Set (not Group) and also
> garbles the phrase regarding those delightful Bloomsberries who "lived in
> squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles," a phrase that Dorothy
> Parker did *not* devise. The article says that the Group members "lived
> in *houses*" (as opposed to tents, perhaps?)
>
>
>
> I may have said this on the VW listserve before, but it's worth saying
> again that the original version of that phrase seems to have been coined by
> Margaret Irwin. Kingsley Martin indicates in the piece he wrote on 20
> March 1941 for the “Critic’s London Diary” in the New Statesman that:
> “Certainly it is no longer what Margaret Irwin used to describe in the
> twenties as the place where ‘all the couples were triangles and lived in
> squares’” (94). (see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.english.
> usage/ArJIaqXzADM).
>
>
>
> Here's that link to the Bloomsbury article:
>
> https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/camden-
> borough/bloomsbury/living-in-bloomsbury-area-guide-to-
> homes-schools-and-transport-a114606.html
>
> <https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/camden-borough/bloomsbury/living-in-bloomsbury-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-a114606.html>
> Living in Bloomsbury: area guide to homes, schools and ...
> <https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/camden-borough/bloomsbury/living-in-bloomsbury-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-a114606.html>
> www.homesandproperty.co.uk
> The timeless quality of Bloomsbury is due in part to The Bedford Estates.
> Since 1669, much of this central London district has been owned, managed
> and developed by ...
> Best,
>
>
>
> Vara
>
>
> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717
> neverowv1 at southernct.edu
>
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