Hyde Park Gate, Kensington

Edwardes, T. Dyer, Esq., 5, Hyde Park-gate, Kensington Gore, S-W. Edwards, Mr. Francis, 83, High-street, Marylebone, W. 

Writing of her move from the repressive Victorian family home in Kensington to her own airy Bloomsbury house ( the most beautiful, the most exciting, the most romantic place in the world ), Woolf wrote that 46 Gordon Square could never have meant what it did had not 22 Hyde Park Gate preceded it. These lines appear in an ephemeral paper written for a circle of intimates, but there is a lasting truth in Woolf s claim that one can... 

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