[Vwoolf] A Bloomsbury real-estate article

[Mark Hussey]

In the course of my research for the biography of Clive Bell I’m working on, the other day I read a letter from Bell to Mary Hutchinson written in March 1945 in which he describes as “definitely American” the terms “running a temperature” and “throwing a party.”  So no, Clarissa would probably not have done that until after the next War!

 

Mark h

From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Harish Trivedi
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 4:06 AM
To: Stuart N. Clarke
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​And "throwing"?  Would she ever do that? ​




Harish Trivedi 

 

 

 

On 26 October 2017 at 13:28, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

“In the opening pages of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway, the protagonist Clarissa Dalloway contemplates her life as she walks through the streets of Bloomsbury on a sun-dappled June morning, going to buy flowers for the society party she’s throwing.”

 

No, she doesn’t walk through Bloomsbury.

 

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). 

 

Here's that link to the Bloomsbury article:

https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/camden-borough/bloomsbury/living-in-bloomsbury-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-a114606.html


 <https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/camden-borough/bloomsbury/living-in-bloomsbury-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-a114606.html> 

 <https://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/area-guides/camden-borough/bloomsbury/living-in-bloomsbury-area-guide-to-homes-schools-and-transport-a114606.html> Living in Bloomsbury: area guide to homes, schools and ...

www.homesandproperty.co.uk

The timeless quality of Bloomsbury is due in part to The Bedford Estates. Since 1669, much of this central London district has been owned, managed and developed by ...

Best, 

 

Vara

 

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

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