Frances Partridge is the oldest surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. At the age of 93 she published "Other People" which chronicled her life between 1963 and 1966 when she was struggling to come to terms with the deaths of both her husband Ralph and her son Burgo. This sequel to that volume follows her life between the years 1967 and 1970. With the support of friends, who included Julia Strachey, Robert Kee, Raymond Mortimer, Rosamund Lehmann and Gerald Brenan, travelling and her unfailing interest in the world outside, Partridge comes to terms with existence after her twofold loss. She is endlessly observant of nature and people, and has an acerbic sense of humour, a refusal to indulge in self-pity and, perhaps above all, a passion for conversation.

Good company: Diaries : January 1967-December 1970

Biographies & Memoirs

Frances Partridge

Community & Culture

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Frances Partridge is the oldest surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. Most of its leading members she knew well - Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Virginia Woolf - and this book contains many of her memories of them, as well as reflections on her own life. The author also wrote "Other People".

Hanging on: Diaries, December 1960-August 1963

Flamingo

Frances Partridge, now recognised as one of the great British diarists, at the age of 101, decided to publish her seventh volume of diaries, which cover her life between the years of 1972 and 1975. Despite over ten years having passed since the deaths of both her husband Ralph and son Burgo, their presence still hovers over these diaries. But never one to give up on life or to wallow in sadness, Frances turns to her friends for sustenance and distraction. She is, as ever, passionate about good conversation and argument, and in this volume there is plenty to discuss: the crises in Heath's government, the miners' strike, Bertolucci's new film LAST TANGO IN PARIS, the growing industry of writing about Bloomsbury, and the gradual emergence of drug-taking among the young people she knows.

Ups and Downs : Diaries, 1972-1975

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Orion Pub Co

The Bloomsbury Group was as well known for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the love quadrangle between Frances Partridge, her husband Ralph Partridge, his first wife, Dora, and Lytton Strachey was one of the most notorious (Frances loved Ralph, who loved Dora, who loved Lytton, who loved Ralph) and tragic, ending in the death of Strachey and the suicide of Dora. Love in Bloomsbury, Frances Partridge’s celebrated memoirs, describes her Victorian  upbringing  and tells the story of the star-crossed quartet, two of whom were doomed, the other two survivors. Replete with vivid accounts of parties  and infused with the heady, Bohemian  atmosphere which flourished after the First World War and revealing character sketches of all the principal “Bloomsberries”—Leonard and Virginia Woolf, her sister Vanessa Bell, John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry. This is Bloomsbury laid bare—a window  onto the lives, loves, and excesses of some of the twentieth century’s most intriguing, yet enigmatic, players.

Love in Bloomsbury

I.B.Tauris

A collection of memoirs giving a first-hand account of the Bloomsbury group, describing everyday events and providing an insight into the involvement of the author's husband with Lytton Strachey and Carrington.

Memories

Robin Clark, Ltd.

Praised in the Sunday Telegraph, The Observer, The Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement

Pacifist's War

History

Europe

Robin Clark, London, Melbourne, New York

A Pacifist's War

Phoenix Books

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