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1	The President by Frances Partridge (Translator), Miguel Angel Asturias add to wishlist see all copies from $8.63! new only from $24.68!
2	Ups and Downs: Diaries 1972-1975: Volume 7 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Frances Partridge at the age of 100 has had a new lease of life and decided she would like to publish another volume of diaries which will cover the years 1972-75. 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 whose friends included ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
3	Hanging on: Diaries 1960-1963 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Frances Partridge knew well most of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group. Hanging On contains many of her memories of them. It also contains, among her reflections on her own life, her private thoughts on the complex relations between herself, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey and her beloved husband Ralph. It is with the death of Ralph in ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Memories more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist 'The core of this book is a love affair with Bloomsbury; but a sunny temperament, sharp ear, appreciative eye and richly coloured family background make it also, especially in the early chapters, a classic' Observer Frances Marshall was destined for Bloomsbury. Related to the Stracheys and the Frys, she was brought up in an enlightened and ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
5	Julia, a Portrait of Julia Strachey more books like this by Julia Strachey, Frances Partridge add to wishlist Following Julia Strachey's death, her life-long friend Frances Partridge was presented with an extraordinary assortment of her papers. Combining material from this source and extracts from the correspondence between the two friends, this book presents an account of the life of a remarkable woman. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
6	Love in Bloomsbury : memories more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist see all copies from $4.44!
7	Pacifist's War more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist At the outset of the Second World War Ralph and Frances Partridge were both convinced pacifists. These extracts from Frances' war diary present an intimate and vivid picture of their life at Ham Spray in Wiltshire embracing general aspects of activity such as music, reading and conversation, as well as evocative descriptions of nature. see all copies from $3.99! first editions
8	Life Regained: Diaries, January 1970-December 1971 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Frances Partridge at the age of 100 has had a new lease of life and has decided she would like to publish another volume of diaries which will cover the years 1972-1975. Now recognised as one of the great British diarists of the century, she was born in Bedford Square, Bloomsbury in 1900, the daughter of a progressive mother and architect father ... see all copies from $2.53! first editions
9	A Pacifist's War: Diaries 1939-1945: Volume 1 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist At the outset of the Second World War Ralph and Frances Partridge were both convinced pacifists. These extracts from Frances war diary present an intimate and vivid picture of their life at Ham Spray in Wiltshire , which was a refuge to a wide range of friends, including many of their fellow 'Bloomsberries', as well as a stream of refugees and ... see all copies from $18.18! new only from $18.85!
10	Hanging on : diaries December 1960-August 1963 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Frances Partridge is the oldest surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. Most of its leading members she knew well - Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Virginia Woolf - and this book contains many of her memories of them, as well as reflections on her own life. The author also wrote "Other People". see all copies from $2.53! first editions
11	Other People: Diaries 1963-1966: Volume 4 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Other People chronicles Frances Partridge's life in the mid-1960s, when she is still struggling to come to terms with existence after the double blow of the deaths of her husband Ralph and her son Burgo. Coping with friends in extremis, and with their daily idiosyncrasies, foibles and irritations, is one of the recurring themes of this diary. She ... see all copies from $2.53! first editions
12	Life Regained: Diaries 1970-1972: Volume 6 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Aged 70, widowed for 10 years, and still mourning the loss of her son Burgo, Partridge still manages to write and live with an extraordinary passion for her friends, travels abroad, the opera, playing in string quartets, walking in the country, having long conversations, and enjoying life in every way. This volume of diaries takes her to Russia, ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $193.60! \| first editions
13	Good Company: Diaries: January 1967-December 1970 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist 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. ... see all copies from $12.85! first editions
14	A Bloomsbury Album: Friends in Focus more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist see all copies from $3.75! new only from $22.56! \| first editions
15	Everything to Lose: A Diary 1945 to 1962 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist see all copies from $6.79! signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Good Company: Diaries 1967-1970: Volume 5 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Good Company opens up Frances Partridge's life between 1967 and 1970, as she attempts 'to get a better seat on [my] bicycle'. Confronted by times of great adversity, she refuses to indulge in self pity. A patient listener to other people's troubles, she can also be pungently outspoken in her criticism of her friends and their beliefs, in the name ... see all copies from $11.99! new only from $62.02! \| first editions
17 view cover	Diaries, 1939-1972 more books like this by Frances Partridge, Rebecca Wilson add to wishlist Frances Partridge, 100 this year, is now recognised as one of the great British diarists of the century. She 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 University, she ... see all copies from $29.95! new only from $195.77!
18	The president by Miguel Angel Asturias add to wishlist see all copies from $15.52! first editions
19 view cover	Everything to Lose: Diaries 1945-1960: Volume 2 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist 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; here a succession of interesting friends visited and were visited in return: Gerald Brenan, Raymond Mortimer, and Robert Kee whose dramatic relationship was 'as if electricity had been let ... see all copies from $9.79!
20 view cover	Phoenix: Frances Partridge Diaries 1939-1972 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Frances Partridge's diaries are full of not only good gossip about various illustrious friends (including members of the Bloomsbury group) but her own delightful personality and observations on current events and culture. see all copies from $44.45!
21 view cover	Frances Partridge Diaries 1972-1975: Vol. 7 by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Frances Partridge, now recognised as one of the great British diarists, at the age of 101, decided to publish her seventh volume of diaries, which cover her life between the years of 1972 and 1975. Despite over ten years having passed since the deaths of both her husband Ralph and son Burgo, their presence still hovers over these diaries. But ... see all copies from $3.38!
22	Everything to lose : diaries 1945-1960 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Ham Spray and Frances's enduring partnership with Ralph are focal points in these engrossing, beautifully written diaries. Here they were surrounded by the Wiltshire downs; here a succession of interesting friends visited and were visited in return: Gerald and Gamel Brenan, Eddy Sackville-West and Raymond Mortimer, and Robert Kee and Janetta ... see all copies from $8.95! first editions
23 view cover	Other people : diaries, September 1963-December 1966 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist Chronicles the author's life in the mid-1960s, when she was struggling to come to terms with existence after the deaths of both her husband Ralph and her son Burgo. Coping with friends and with their daily idiosyncracies, foibles and irritations, is one of the recurring themes of this diary. But it is Frances Partridge's bravery in living that ... see all copies from $3.99! first editions
24	Good company : diaries, 1967-70 more books like this by Frances Partridge add to wishlist A collection of the diaries written by the Bloomsbury group member, Frances Partridge between 1967 and 1970. see all copies from $15.61!
25	A History of Clayton County, Georgia, 1821-1983 more books like this by Alice Copeland Kilgore, Edith Hanes Smith, Frances Partridge Tuck, Joseph Henry Hightower Moore, Janie Sellars Mitchell, Inc Ancestors Unlimited add to wishlist see all copies from $100.00!

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