[Vwoolf] For Agatha Christie fans

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

I got "bachelor apartments" from the Wikipedia page. But this same page 
states that the Albany is in Piccadilly, so to answer my own question, 
VW puts Bowley in Piccadilly because that's where he lives, not to hint 
at his sexual leaning. See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_(London)

I did actually know someone who lived there in, I think, the 1990s. Now 
deceased, he was certainly not gay, but a widower. Whether the men-only 
rule still applies Wikipedia does not state.

Jeremy H


On 21.04.2020 19:40, Adolphe Haberer via Vwoolf wrote:
> Dear all,
> I remember spending a lot of time wondering about Bowley's "right arm 
> resting on the boss of his back" when I translated /Jacob's Room/ for 
> Gallimard. The French "bosse" would have made him a hunchback, and his 
> "bosse" would have been placed so high in his back that it would have 
> implied a painful rather than a restful position. So I finally opted 
> for "protubérance", leaving the French reader with the same sense of 
> uncertainty and puzzlement as the English.
> As for the Albany, I believe it was a residence for (moneyed) 
> gentlemen rather than for bachelors with possible gay leanings. 
> Palmerston, Byron and Gladstone are known to have lived there, and 
> closer to the end of the 30's, Harold Nicolson and Aldous Huxley.
> With best wishes to all,
> Ado Haberer
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