Dimensions
160 x 240 x 50mm
Frances Partridge is now recognised as one of the great British diarists of the century. She was born in Bloomsbury in 1900, the daughter of a progressive mother and architect father. After studying Moral Sciences and English at Cambridge University, she worked in Heywood Hill's Curzon Street bookshop in London and became part of the Bloomsbury Group. She married Ralph Patridge in 1933. During the war they were both pacifists and opened their house, Ham Spray, to numerous waifs and strays of war. Their life of great warmth and friendship ended when Ralph died in 1960. Three years later their only son Burgo, died at the age of 28 from a brain hemorrhage.
She maintained an astonishing appetite for life, whether for her friends, travelling, botany, or music. Her diaries, written without thought of publication, chronicle a remarkable life.
