[Vwoolf] Bloomsbury in the Wall Street Journal...

[Neverow, Vara S.]

Greetings,

An article on Bloomsbury--A Walking Tour of London's Most Literary Quarter—with Pub Stops<https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-walking-tour-of-londons-most-literary-quarterwith-pub-stops-1514203200&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoRMjc5NzYzOTk3NzQ2MTc1NTEyGjBkYTBmODkyM2NkNWMyMDM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFH_ukCR0wTTeHd1FvUlErF2RaMDg>--has been published in the Wall Street Journal. One must have a subscription to read the article. I don't have a subscription, but the first paragraph of the article (see below) includes the famous misattribution to Dorothy Parker of a witty description of the geometrical Bloomsberries.

Stuart Clarke has indicated that he has discovered the actual origin of the (see the forthcoming January 2018 issue of the “Virginia Woolf Bulletin” for the details).

Best,

Vara


By
Kate Maxwell
Dec. 25, 2017 7:00 a.m. ET

THE INTELLECTUAL HEART of London has been beating faster of late. North of Soho, the Bloomsbury neighborhood, with its orderly garden squares of soot-blackened-brick Georgian townhouses, was the stamping ground of the Bloomsbury Group, a maverick set of writers, artists and philosophers that included Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and E.M. Forster. Dorothy Parker famously quipped that they “lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles.”

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