Frances Partridge

JS grew up in a middle-class, intellectual, predominantly English family, though she spent part of her childhood with her English father and Swiss mother in India. Her father's militant atheism seems not to have...

Partridge became involved with women including Valentine Dobrée and Frances Marshall (whom he later married), while Carrington began a relationship with Gerald Brenan this year.

JS 's lifelong friendship with writer Frances Marshall (later Partridge) first began when the two were girls together at Brackenhurst school. As an adult, JS spent much time at Ham Spray, the Wiltshire home...

Friends and neighbours here included James and Alix Strachey , Clive Bell , and Virginia and Leonard Woolf .Frances Partridge writes that JS was generally judged by them to be a lively and...

Constantly lonely (Gowing was currently in a sanatorium for tuberculosis), JS began in 1951 to see a psychologist, a woman who advised her that her recurring dreams of small animals desperate for love and attention...

The novel's first published title was inspired, according to Frances Partridge , by Virginia Woolf 's description of painter Henry Lamb as nipped, like a man on a pier. In 1978, when Penguin Books

Carrington was fascinated by film, and in August 1929, in addition to other projects, she co-ordinated the filming of Dr Turner's Mental Home, recorded on a cinecamera by some of her friends and featuring...

JS wrote to Frances Partridge in July 1940 about the strange calm that has fallen—the calm before the storm, I suppose. I don't feel anxiety any more, personally—in any conscious form that is. I just...

JS published two novels and several pieces of short fiction during her lifetime, in the mid twentieth century. Frances Partridge writes in her introduction to JS 's memoir that when she died, after a long...

JS wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy 's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin . After finishing her manuscript, she sent...

This story was first presented by JS to the Memoir Club as Animalia. Frances Partridge reports that the New Yorker's literary editor was especially pleased with Strachey's submission: after reading her Cheerful...

JS 's acquaintance John Lehmann issued a number of her texts: in addition to The Man on the Pier (1951), he published in the New Writing, in 1940 and 1942-3 respectively, Strachey's stories Fragments...

Frances Partridge calls this a mammoth play, with concerns far removed from the war which was occupying the global horizon at the time.

JS was writing this novel by November 1950, when she read an early draft to Frances Partridge at the latter's home, Ham Spray. Partridge notes that during working walks, Strachey remarked on the...

Frances Partridge observes that Strachey began to write these memoirs [q]uite late in her life, probably in her sixties. She worked at them in the London Library , and with the assistance of typists...