Selected Letters of Frances Partridge
Frances Partridge(Author)
Anne Chisholm(Editor)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Publisher)
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-297-64674-7 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-297-64674-7 (9780297646747)
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Persons
Frances Partridge was born in Bedford Square in 1900. Family friends included Henry James, Conan Doyle and various members of the Strachey family. She has translated many books and with her husband Ralph edited the Greville Memoirs. Anne Chisholm is the author of a biography of Nancy Cunard and FACES OF HIROSHIMA, a book about the Hiroshima Maidens. With Michael Davie she wrote BEAVERBROOK: A LIFE (1992). She was a close friend of Frances Partridge during the last years of her life. She reviews widely and is the current chairman of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Belsize Park, London, NW3 and Ewelme, Oxfordshire.