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Frances Partridge: A Biography

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Description for Frances Partridge: A Biography Paperback. Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 33. Weight in Grams: 512.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Phoenix
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753826997
SKU
V9780753826997
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About Anne Chisholm
Anne Chisholm is the author of a biography of Nancy Cunard and FACES OF HIROSHIMA, a book about the Hiroshima Maidens. With Michael Davie she wrote BEAVERBROOK: A LIFE (1992). She was a close friend of Frances Partridge during the last years of her life. She reviews widely and is the current chairman of the Royal Society of Literature. She ... Read more

Reviews for Frances Partridge: A Biography
This tale is seen from a fresh perspective in Anne Chisholm's prodigiousy sympathetic biography
OBSERVER
Anne Chisholm's biography adds a great deal to Partridge's wonderful diaries...Chisholm is also superb at capturing charisma, including Ralph's, though her experienced biographer's view of him is not as adoring as his wife's.
Ophelia Field
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Frances emerges as ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Frances Partridge: A Biography


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