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CHISHOLM, ANNE: : FRANCES PARTRIDGE: The Biography

LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,2009.

ISBN 9780297646730.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip (£25.00) to dw/dj - virtually as new - wrapped and protected from day of issue/ purchase.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,subject+contemporaries b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - an unread copy.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain maroon cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,with immaculate,colour facsimile hand-written letters/correspondence illustrated eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,viii-xivpp +2-402pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,foreword,20 chapters,24pp profuse b/w+sepia (majority) and colour, subject+contemporaries photographs in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp114/5, pp194/5 and pp274/5 respectively,an afterword,appendices(2),notes on sources and acknowledgements,source notes,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and illustrations list/table. Frances Partridge was one of the great diarists of the 20thC, best known for much of her life for her association with Bloomsbury. Independent-minded and beautiful,she was linked by marriage or friendship to many of the most original and influential writers and artists of her time,and observed them all with clarity and affection.When she met and fell in love with Ralph Partridge she became entangled in the delicately balanced menage a trois he shared with his wife Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey. In a life that spanned the 20thC (she died in 2004 aged 103) Frances grew up in a circle that included Henry James, Tennyson,Arthur Conan Doyle and Leslie Stephen.As a child she marched for votes for women; at eighteen she studied philosophy at Cambridge and danced the Charleston with Lord Mountbatten; in the 1920's she went to work at Birrell and Garnett's bookshop in Bloomsbury,and came to know Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey,Vanessa and Clive Bell, E.M. Forster and Maynard Keynes.By the Second World War she and Ralph were committed pacifists,whose house in Wiltshire,Ham Spray,gave shelter to their friends of all opinions. A busy and productive middle age as a translator and indexer was shattered by two disasters: Ralph's fatal heart attack in 1960,followed three years later by the death of their only son,Burgo,at the age of 28.Frances rebuilt her life in London, and found herself observing the social experiments of the 1960's while helping reassess the legacy of Bloomsbury.The publication of two memoirs and six volumes of her diaries in her old age brought her new admirers who delighted in her sharp intelligence,humour,fortitude and unfailing zest for life. With access to Frances Partridge's unpublished diaries and letters,Anne Chisholm's biography is both a portrait of an exceptional woman and a panorama of the lives of her generation. Frances Catherine Partridge CBE (née Marshall; 15 March 1900 - 5 February 2004) was a long-lived member of the Bloomsbury Group and a writer,best known for the publication of her diaries.She married Ralph Partridge (b.1894 - 30th November, 1960.) in 1933. Working at a London bookshop owned by David Garnett and Francis Birrell,she became acquainted with Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington and Ralph Partridge.In 1921,Ralph Partridge had married Dora Carrington,who was in love with Lytton Strachey,a homosexual who was himself more interested in Ralph Partridge.An added complication was Dora Carrington’s intermittent affair with one of Ralph Partridge’s best friends,Gerald Brenan. Carrington,Partridge,and Strachey shared a Wiltshire farm-house,Ham Spray,in a complex triangular relationship that was recorded in the 1995 film Carrington,with Alex Kingston playing Frances.Ralph Partridge now fell in love with Frances. They lived in London during the week and repaired to Ham Spray at weekends. After Dora Carrington committed suicide out of grief in 1932,shortly after Lytton Strachey’s death,Ralph and Frances married on 2 March 1933. They lived happily at Ham Spray until Ralph’s death in 1960.They had one son, (Lytton) Burgo Partridge,who was born in 1935 and named for Strachey.In 1962,Burgo married Henrietta Garnett,daughter of Angelica Garnett and David Garnett,with Henrietta already pregnant with their daughter.Sadly,he died suddenly of heart failure on 7th September,1963,only three weeks after the birth of their baby,Sophie Vanessa.He had already been noticed for his writing ability,and had published one well-received book,'A History of Orgies' (1958). Frances sold Ham Spray and moved to London.She was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Millennium New Year Honours. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! 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