The author is the last surviving member of the original Bloomsbury group. Most of its leading members she knew well and this book contains many of her memories of them. It also contains her private thoughts on the complex relations between herself, her husband, Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey.

Hanging On: Diaries 1960-1963

Partridge, Frances

HarperCollins, Publishers

This is a chronicle Frances Partridge's life in the mid-1960s, when she was still struggling to come to terms with existence after the double blow of the deaths of her husband Ralph and her son Burgo. An indefatigable traveller, endlessly observant of nature and human beings, Partridge is passionate for ideas, for conversation and for her friends. It is this passion for life in the face of adversity which is one of the most attractive qualities of the woman the reader comes to know through these diaries.

Other People: Diaries, 1963-66

Biographies & Memoirs

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

Community & Culture

Other people: Diaries, September 1963-December 1966

Flamingo

Good Company

London: Flamingo

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Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey (Lives & Letters S)

Strachey, Julia

Penguin??Books

Francis Partridge's diaries are the record of a woman who not only participated in the lives of the legendary Bloomsbury group, but was the circle’s oldest surviving member until her death in 2004. At the age of 100, Frances Partridge decided to publish another volume of diaries which cover the years 1972-1975. Recognized as one of the great British diarists of the century, she was born in Bloomsbury in 1900, studied at Cambridge, and became part of the Bloomsbury Group, encountering Virginia Woolf, the Bells, Roger Fry and Maynard Keynes. Her diaries, written without thought of publication, chronicle a remarkable life. Beautifully written, full of an infectious enthusiasm and unending curiosity, they are utterly riveting and rank amongst the greatest diaries of the 20th century.

Ups and Downs: Diaries 1972-1975: Volume 7

Literature & Fiction

Orion Publishing

<p>Memories is the record of a woman who not only participated in the lives of the legendary Bloomsbury group, but was the circles oldest surviving member until her death in 2004. In these vivid and perceptive memoirs, Frances Partridge records her impressions of Virginia Woolf, the Bells, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Maynard Keynes, and the Desmond MacCarthys.</p>

Love in Bloomsbury: Memories

Arts & Literature

Little,Brown & Co

<p>The author recounts her childhood and education, and discusses her friendships with Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Virginia Woolf, Dora Carrington, and others of the Bloomsbury group</p>

Francis Partridge's diaries are the record of a woman who not only participated in the lives of the legendary Bloomsbury group, but was the circle’s oldest surviving member until her death in 2004. The Partridge home, called Ham Spray, and Frances's enduring partnership with Ralph are focal points in these beautifully written diaries. Here they were surrounded by the Wiltshire downs, and here a succession of interesting friends visited and were visited in return. While in London there were visits to Cyril Connolly, lunch at The Ivy with Duncan Grant, Julia Strachey, and Clive Bell, followed by meetings of The Memoir Club for those survivors of Bloomsbury. Frances Partridge reveals a life of such warmth, friendship and good fortune that at the close of these diaries it seems almost impossible that death could rob her of the source of such happinessRalph.

Everything to Lose: Diaries 1945-1960

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Hanging On: Diaries 1960-1963

Other People: Diaries, 1963-66

Good company: Diaries : January 1967-December 1970

Other people: Diaries, September 1963-December 1966

Good Company

Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey (Lives & Letters S)

Ups and Downs: Diaries 1972-1975: Volume 7

Love in Bloomsbury: Memories

Love in Bloomsbury: Memories

Everything to Lose: Diaries 1945-1960