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Anything and everything you wanted to know about Bloomsbury, its predecessors and its casualties — with obligatory forays into the Riviera and Parisian garrets.

In central Paris, a thousand vulnerable people living in top-floor, garret apartments died because the city’s famous heat-absorbing zinc roofs turned their uninsulated homes into ovens.

A triangle conjures up the narrow garret in which Harriet Jacobs, the author of “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” hid for seven years to avoid capture.

The romantic image of the writer in the garret doesn't do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words, one after another.

Our little garret had a great view, but confronting six flights of stairs after walking around Paris all day wasn’t fun.