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Vara Neverow<br>
Department of English<br>
Southern Connecticut State University<br>
New Haven, CT 06515<br>
203-392-6717<br>
neverowv1@southernct.edu<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 5, 2017 6:57:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> vwoolf listserve<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] "squares where all the couples are triangles"</font>
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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 Bulletin”.</div>
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<div><a title="http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/vw_bulletin.htm" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk%2Fvw_bulletin.htm&data=02%7C01%7Cneverowv1%40southernct.edu%7C2252bc00779848b135d808d53bd75b05%7C58736863d60e40ce95c60723c7eaaf67%7C0%7C0%7C636480718490122889&sdata=4WSKduD%2FbpKRNn12NQQQSttnEj%2FLI6%2FfZ0%2FlCEkrPDk%3D&reserved=0">http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/vw_bulletin.htm</a></div>
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<div>Stuart</div>
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<div style=""><b>From:</b> <a title="neverowv1@southernct.edu">Neverow, Vara S.</a>
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<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>
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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="x_OWAAutoLink" href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fforum%2F%23!topic%2Falt.english.usage%2FArJIaqXzADM&data=02%7C01%7Cneverowv1%40southernct.edu%7C2252bc00779848b135d808d53bd75b05%7C58736863d60e40ce95c60723c7eaaf67%7C0%7C0%7C636480718490122889&sdata=qJHiID2llQWXw6jFu2q3sBmBsnSBZSGR47jSQ6t9ng0%3D&reserved=0">
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.english.usage/ArJIaqXzADM</a>). </span>
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Vara<br>
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Department of English<br>
Southern Connecticut State University<br>
New Haven, CT 06515<br>
203-392-6717<br>
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