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February 07, 2004
Bloomsberries
The last of the Bloomsbury Set has died, aged 103. Frances Partridge was an unofficial biographer of a circle of writers and artists (plus a noted economist) attached to my favourite neighbourhood anywhere.
Married into the group in 1933 - to the writer Ralph Partridge - Frances went on to write seven volumes of diaries and memoirs, unintentionally becoming the chronicler of the Bloomsbury artists and writers - the Bells, the Woolfs, the Stracheys and Grants - whose work and tangled relationships challenged and shocked post-Victorian Britain.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 7, 2004 08:14 AM