[Vwoolf] A new book: Walking Virginia Woolf's London

Lisbeth Larsson lisbeth.larsson at lir.gu.se
Tue Dec 12 07:24:51 EST 2017


Dear all Woolfians,
I would like to draw your attention to my new book Walking Virginia Woolf’s London: An investigation in literary geography, published by Palsgrave Macmillan. The back cover text sounds as follow:


This innovative volume employs theoretical tools from the field of literary geography to explore Virginia Woolf’s writing and the ways in which she constructs her human subjects. It follows the routes of characters from The Voyage, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and more as they walk around London, demonstrating how Woolf constructs the characters in her stories in a very politically conscious way. As Larsson argues, none of Woolf’s characters are able to walk just anywhere, at any time in history, or at any time of the day. Time, place, gender, and class form the conditions of life that the characters must accept or challenge.

Featuring an array of detailed maps, Walking Virginia Woolf’s London: An Investigation in Literary Geography brings a fascinating new perspective to Virginia Woolf’s work. It is essential reading for scholars of modernist literature or geocriticism.


Professor Dr. Lisbeth Larsson

Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion (LIR)
University of Gothenburg
Box 200
405 30 Göteborg
phone: + 46 (0)31 786 4556
Fax: + 46 (0)31 786 15 60


Från: Vwoolf på uppdrag av "Neverow, Vara S."
Datum: fredag 8 december 2017 13:33
Till: "Stuart N. Clarke", vwoolf listserve
Ämne: Re: [Vwoolf] "squares where all the couples are triangles"

Thank you!

Vara Neverow
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu<mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
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From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+neverowv1=southernct.edu at lists.osu.edu<mailto:vwoolf-bounces+neverowv1=southernct.edu at lists.osu.edu>> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com<mailto:stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 6:57:18 AM
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Subject: [Vwoolf] "squares where all the couples are triangles"

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”.

http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.co.uk/vw_bulletin.htm<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>

Stuart

From: Neverow, Vara S.
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 9:42 PM
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Subject: [Vwoolf] A Bloomsbury real-estate article


Below is a guide to living in Bloomsbury (if you can afford it).



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 not devise. The article says that the Group members "lived in houses" (as opposed to tents, perhaps?)



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 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 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.english.usage/ArJIaqXzADM<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>).


[snip]



Best,



Vara




Vara Neverow
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu<mailto:neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
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