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<DIV>Thanks to Vara’s lead, I have now discovered the origin of the
phrase. The result of my researches (if that doesn’t sound too pompous)
will be published in the January 2018 issue of the “Virginia Woolf
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=neverowv1@southernct.edu>Neverow, Vara S.</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 25, 2017 9:42 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf listserve</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] A Bloomsbury real-estate article</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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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 id=LPlnk811654 class=OWAAutoLink
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">[snip]</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=PlainText><FONT size=3 face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif">Vara
Neverow<BR>Department of English<BR>Southern Connecticut State University<BR>New
Haven, CT
06515<BR>203-392-6717<BR>neverowv1@southernct.edu</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>