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Frances Catherine Partridge CBE (née Marshall; 15 March 1900 – 5 February 2004) was an English writer. Closely connected to the Bloomsbury Group, she is probably best known for the publication of her diaries.

Frances Catherine Partridge CBE (née Marshall; 15 March 1900 – 5 February 2004) was an English writer. She married Ralph Partridge (1894 – 30 November 1960) in 1933. The couple had one son, (Lytton) Burgo Partridge (1935–1963).

Frances Partridge was born in Bedford Square in 1900. Family friends included Henry James, Conan Doyle and various members of the Strachey family.

The high-minded Bloomsbury bluestocking now had to cope with the rude egalitarianism of Harold Wilson's Britain

Frances Partridge Diaries 1939-1972 Paperback – November 1, 2000. Frances Partridge was born in Bedford Square in 1900.

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When Frances and Ralph Partridge had fallen in love, he already had a wife in Dora . She is sustained by music, books and talk, and appreciates those who think deeply and constructively.

When Frances and Ralph Partridge had fallen in love, he already had a wife in Dora Carrington. She had married him to keep close at hand the person on whom Lytton Strachey – Carrington's real love – had come to depend. From the start, it was evident that Frances Partridge's diary upheld the Bloomsbury habit of analysing her own and others' behaviour. Since then, at intervals, she has gone to the old French wardrobe where she keeps her archives and resurrected more of her past. As she reached her 100th year, failing eyesight began to make revisions difficult.

by Frances Partridge. Now recognised as one of the great British diarists of the century, Partridge was born in Bedford Square, Bloomsbury in 1900, the daughter of a progressive mother and architect father whose friends included Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle. After studying Moral Sciences and English at Cambridge, she worked in Heywood Hill's Curzon Street bookshop and became part of the Bloomsbury Group, meeting Woolf, the Bells, Roger Fry and Keynes.