[Vwoolf] A Book of Literary Confessions: Virginia Woolf and Margaret Kennedy’s handwritten opinions unearthed | The Independent

[Neverow, Vara S.]

Thanks so much, Gill!


It's a very intriguing read indeed.


It's also amusing as well that Margaret Irwin, one of the contributors to the collection of commentaries, coined the phrase that morphed into that now-iconic "lived in squares, loved in triangles" description of the Bloomsbury Group.


A webpage of the Quote Investigator now features an interesting version of that information at:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/05/16/triangles/.

[https://quoteinvestigator.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/sqtri09.jpg]<https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/05/16/triangles/>

All the Couples Were Triangles and Lived in Squares – Quote Investigator<https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/05/16/triangles/>
quoteinvestigator.com
Dorothy Parker? Margaret Irwin? Kingsley Martin? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: The writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Bloomsbury Group formed complex and shifting intimate relationships. A wit once said: They lived in squares and loved in triangles. The geometric wordplay referred to ...

The webpage explicitly cites Stuart N. Clarke's article in the Notes and Queries section of the January 2018 issue of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin as a source:

Issue: Fall 2017 / Winter 2018, Periodical: Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Number 92, Article: “squares where all the couples are triangles”, Author: Stuart N. Clarke (Independent Scholar), Start Page 38, Column 2, Quote Page 39, Column 2, (Footnote states article first appeared in the Virginia Woolf Bulletin, No. 57 (January 2018), Pages 42-45). (Accessed online at virginiawoolfmiscellany.wordpress.com on November 20, 2018).

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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Intriguing, though the details are not clear:

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Gill

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