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<p>Below is a guide to living in Bloomsbury (if you can afford it). </p>
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<p>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
<i>not</i> devise. The article says that the Group members "lived in <i>houses</i>" (as opposed to tents, perhaps?)</p>
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<p>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 <span style="font-size: 12pt;">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 <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.english.usage/ArJIaqXzADM" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk811654" previewremoved="true">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.english.usage/ArJIaqXzADM</a>). </span><br>
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<p>Here's that link to the Bloomsbury article:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/camden-borough/bloomsbury/living-in-bloomsbury-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-a114606.html" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk801329" previewremoved="true">https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/camden-borough/bloomsbury/living-in-bloomsbury-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-a114606.html</a></p>
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