With the publication of Life Regained Frances Partridge is now recognised as one of the greatest diarists of the century The author reviews regularly for the Spectator and is extremely well known and respected in the literary and artistic world 'Her diaries...are matched only by those of James Lees-Milne as a hugely entertaining record of literary and social life in post-war England'Sunday Times 'Her diaries would be riveting reading even if the story of her personal life had not been so absorbing and dramatic and even if she were not the gifted writer she is' The Times 'Partridge's opinions are always lucid and her ancestral acidity and sharp self-analysis can be bracing' Mail on Sunday
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.
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