Ralph Partridge

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...

Breaking a spinster pact with her close friend Alix Sargant-Florence (later Strachey) , DC married Ralph (formerly Rex) Partridge at St Pancras Registry.

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...

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 . Partridge soon began to spend much...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...