Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Frances Partridge

Born: March 15, 1900
Died: February 5, 2004 (aged 103)
Bio: Frances Catherine Partridge was an English writer. A long-lived member of the Bloomsbury Group, she is probably best known for the publication of her diaries. She married Ralph Partridge in 1933. The couple had one son, Burgo Partridge.
Known for:
- Love in Bloomsbury (1981)
- A pacifist's war (1978)
- Diaries of Frances Partridge, 1939-1972 (2000)
- Life Regained Diaries 1970-1972 (1998)
- Everything to lose (1985)






