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Memories is the record of a woman who not only participated in the lives of the legendary Bloomsbury group, but was the circle’s oldest surviving member until her death in 2004. In these vivid and perceptive memoirs, Frances Partridge records her impressions of Virginia Woolf, the Bells, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Maynard Keynes, and the Desmond MacCarthys.
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Related to the Stracheys, Frances Marshall was brought up in an enlightened and advanced way by parents whose passions were 'eugenics, agnosticism and the march of science'. When she fell in love with Ralph Partridge, their association precipitated one of Bloomsbury's greatest crises; it also put Frances Partridge at the centre of the Bloomsbury circle. In these vivid and perceptive memoirs Frances Partridge records her impressions of Virginia Woolf, the Bells, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Maynard Keynes and the Desmond MacCarthys.
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