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<p>I got "bachelor apartments" from the Wikipedia page. But this
same page states that the Albany is in Piccadilly, so to answer my
own question, VW puts Bowley in Piccadilly because that's where he
lives, not to hint at his sexual leaning. See</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_(London)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_(London)</a></p>
<p>I did actually know someone who lived there in, I think, the
1990s. Now deceased, he was certainly not gay, but a widower.
Whether the men-only rule still applies Wikipedia does not state.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21.04.2020 19:40, Adolphe Haberer
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I remember
spending a lot of time wondering about Bowley's "right arm
resting on the boss of his back" when I translated <i>Jacob's
Room</i> for Gallimard. The French "bosse" would have made
him a hunchback, and his "bosse" would have been placed so
high in his back that it would have implied a painful rather
than a restful position. So I finally opted for
"protubérance", leaving the French reader with the same sense
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As for the
Albany, I believe it was a residence for (moneyed) gentlemen
rather than for bachelors with possible gay leanings.
Palmerston, Byron and Gladstone are known to have lived there,
and closer to the end of the 30's, Harold Nicolson and Aldous
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">With best
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