Ralph Partridge

Standard Name: Partridge, Ralph
Used Form: Rex Partridge

Connections

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Dedications Julia Strachey
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
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.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
187-93, 202-3
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
Breaking a spinster pact with her close friend Alix Sargant-Florence (later Strachey) , DC married Ralph (formerly Rex) Partridge at St Pancras Registry.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
160, 167
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
138
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same...
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
Carrington knew Rex Partridge by mid 1918; he was a friend of Noel Carrington at Oxford University , and was introduced to her by John Hope Johnstone .
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
138
Partridge soon began to spend much...
Friends, Associates Julia Strachey
JS 's lifelong friendship with writer Frances Marshall (later Partridge) first began when the two were girls together at Brackenhurst school.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983.
51
As an adult, JS spent much time at Ham Spray, the Wiltshire home...
Literary responses Agatha Christie
In 1945 Edmund Wilson in Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd dismissed Christie's style as unreadable because of its mawkishness and banality, her plotting as mere sleight-of-hand, and her characters as two-dimensional puppets manipulated...
Literary responses Josephine Tey
Ralph Partridge , in the New Statesman and Nation, praised JT 's wonderful gift for portraying imposters, adding begrudgingly, I suppose that her vision of country life . . . . is also a...
Literary responses Josephine Tey
Ralph Partridge once again praised JT , this time for her treatment of the fascinating impostor: Miss Josephine Tey enjoys a category to herself, as a virtuoso in the spurious.
Tey, Josephine. The Singing Sands. Peter Davies, 1952.
back matter
Occupation Virginia Woolf
Once the press was repaired they printed their handbill. Their first book (Two Stories, containing Virginia's The Mark on the Wall and Leonard's Three Jews) had to be set up and printed...
Publishing Julia Strachey
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...
Residence Dora Carrington
While DC and her husband travelled through Spain, their companion Lytton Strachey secured the trio's new home, Ham Spray: Strachey paid £2,300 for it using profits from his recent success, Queen Victoria.
Caws, Mary Ann. Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington. Routledge, 1990.
116-17
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
204-6
Textual Production Dora Carrington
Carrington's paintings are housed in such institutions as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery , the Tate Gallery , the Slade School of Art , and private collections. Many of her papers, mainly letters and diaries...

Timeline

5 February 2004: Frances Partridge, diarist, memoirist, and...

Women writers item

5 February 2004

Frances Partridge , diarist, memoirist, and the longest-surviving member of the Bloomsbury group, died at the age of very nearly a hundred and four.
De-la-Noy, Michael, and James Fergusson. “Frances Partridge; Centenarian survivor of the Bloomsbury Group, 7 February 2004”. The Independent.

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