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Frances Partridge (Paperback)
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Synopsis
Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography.
Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century. She became part of the Bloomsbury group encountering Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, the Bells, Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes, Dora Carrington and Ralph Partridge. She and Ralph fell in love and married in 1933. During the Second World War they were committed pacifists and they enjoyed the happiest times of their lives together, entertaining friends such as E.M. Forster, Robert Kee and Duncan Grant.
Despite losing both her husband and son, Frances maintained an astonishing appetite for life, whether for her friends, travelling, botany, or music. Her diaries (which she continued to write until her death in 2004) chronicle her life from the 1930s onwards. Their publication brought her recognition and acclaim, and earned her the right to be seen not as a minor character on the Bloomsbury stage but standing at the centre of her own.
Reviews
'A vivid evocation of a Bloomsbury icon'
Michael Holroyd
'An absorbing, vivid and elegant account of a life concerned as much with love and friendship as the bold experiments of Bloomsbury'
DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Intimate and particular, but with a watchful eye on the larger picture'
GUARDIAN
'An impressively sure-footed biography and the necessary complement to the published diaries'
LITERARY REVIEW
'Sympathetic, psychologically astute and notably well-written'
INDEPENDENT
'Anne Chisholm has produced a worthy tribute to the woman often dubbed "the last survivor of Bloomsbury"'
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Product Details
- Biographies and Autobiographies
- Twentieth Century
- 456 pages
- 216mm x 135mm x 32mm
- ISBN-13 Number: 9780753826997
- Publication Date: April 2010
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