Margaret Irwin

1889–1967 · English historical novelist

Margaret Emma Faith Irwin was a London-born novelist best known for historical fiction such as Young Bess. Her fourth novel, Fire Down Below (1928), is a satire with a passing dig at “Gloomsbury,” and that dig is the earliest known form of the squares-and-triangles joke.

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“They lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles”

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