Hanging On - Softcover

Partridge, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753808021 ISBN 13: 9780753808023

Publisher: Phoenix, 2001

Synopsis

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 1960 that this book opens. But even in the depths of morbidity Frances Partridge never loses her knowledge of the fecundity of life, her sense of fun, her eye for absurdity, or her capacity and hunger for beauty, that much-derided Bloomsbury characteristic.

About this title

Book Description:

The record of a woman who not only participated in the lives of the legendary Bloomsbury group but is the circle's oldest surviving member

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0753808021
• ISBN 13: 9780753808023
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192