Frances Partridge (1900–2004)
Auteur de Memories
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Crédit image: National Portrait Gallery
Séries
Œuvres de Frances Partridge
Ups and Downs Diaries 1972-1975 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Partridge, Frances
- Nom légal
- Partridge, Frances Catherine
- Autres noms
- Marshall, Frances Catherine (birth name)
- Date de naissance
- 1900-03-15
- Date de décès
- 2004-02-05
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Bedford Square, London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Ham Spray, Wiltshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Études
- Cambridge University (Newnham College)
Bedales School - Professions
- diarist
translator
memoirist - Relations
- Partridge, Ralph (husband)
Partridge, Burgo (son)
Garnett, Ray (sister)
Garnett, David (brother-in-law)
Garnett, Henrietta (daughter-in-law) - Organisations
- Bloomsbury Group
- Prix et distinctions
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Courte biographie
- Frances Partridge, née Marshall, was born in London, England. Her parents were Margaret Anna Lloyd, a suffragist, and William Marshall, an architect. She was educated at Bedales School and Cambridge University. From 1922, she worked for six years at a London bookshop owned by David Garnett (whose first wife was her sister Ray) and Francis Birrell, where she met Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Ralph Partridge, and other members of the Bloomsbury Group.
Frances married Partridge in 1933 and lived with him at Ham Spray, the Wiltshire farmhouse he had shared with Strachey and Carrington before their deaths.
The couple had one son, Burgo, who married Henrietta Garnett. After the deaths of her husband and son in 1960-1963,
Frances sold Ham Spray and moved back to London. She was a prolific translator of works by Spanish and French authors, and with Ralph, helped Lytton Strachey edit the memoirs of 19th-century political diarist Charles Greville, published in eight volumes in 1938. She also published many volumes of her own memoirs and diaries. Her writings, her survival as the last member of the Bloomsbury circle, her personal charm, and the energy she retained into extreme old age, together made her a celebrity towards the end of her long life.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 474
- Popularité
- #52,001
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 45
- Favoris
- 1
I have read a lot of biographies and diaries over the years and Frances Partridge's diaries are beyond anything the best I have read. Her use of language and description is so alive and interesting. Not a boring sentence in the entire book. Life is so short and I am unlikely to get back to rereading this book and I am trying to savour every bite by underlining. I cannot remember when I have underlined so much in a book in my life. I just want to somehow gobble it up and retain it and reread it and hold it somehow make it into mine. Her writing is lyrical, expressive.… (plus d'informations)