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and...below...only accessible for those who have a subscription to the <i>Financial Times</i> (I do not), there's a reference to Woolf, Bloomsbury and the "living in squares" witticism.
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I think that Stuart Clarke's information about Margaret Irwin as the correct source of "living in squares," etc., has now made it into the mainstream discourse though Marian Vaizey's misleading
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">information. W</span>hile these authors are "[v]ariously credited," Irwin
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Anyway, it's just a tidbit of random information on a Wednesday in July.<br>
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Letter: Another gloss on Parker’s Bloomsbury ‘bon mot’<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">JULY 1 2021</span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Further to John Ure’s letter attributing the quip about the Bloomsbury Group’s “geometry” to Dorothy Parker (</span><span class="x_s1" style="color:rgb(13,117,128); font-size:12pt">June 30</span><span style="font-size:12pt">), some
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<span style="font-size:12pt">The original observation is variously credited to either Virginia Woolf, her fellow writer Margaret Irwin or the journalist Kingsley Martin.</span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Many say the quote doesn’t sound like Parker but point out that Parker’s reputation was such that any legendary bon mot would be seen as her handiwork.</span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">She was an acerbic wit and writer, and in the 1920s a member of New York’s Algonquin Round Table writers’ group which enjoyed drop-in visits from the British playwright Noël Coward, the actress Tallulah Bankhead and even Harpo Marx.</span><span class="x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"><b>Marina Vaizey </b></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>London W4, UK</i></span><i><span class="x_Apple-converted-space" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></i></p>
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