Frances Partridge (1900–2004)

Frances Partridge, née Marshall, was born in London, England. Her parents were Margaret Anna Lloyd, a suffragist, and William Marshall, an architect. She was educated at Bedales School and Cambridge University. From 1922, she worked for six years at a London bookshop owned by David Garnett (whose first wife was her sister Ray) and Francis Birrell, where she met Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Ralph Partridge, and other members of the Bloomsbury Group.
Frances married Partridge in 1933 and lived with him at Ham Spray, the Wiltshire farmhouse he had shared with Strachey and Carrington before their deaths.

The couple had one son, Burgo, who married Henrietta Garnett. After the deaths of her husband and son in 1960-1963,
Frances sold Ham Spray and moved back to London. She was a prolific translator of works by Spanish and French authors, and with Ralph, helped Lytton Strachey edit the memoirs of 19th-century political diarist Charles Greville, published in eight volumes in 1938. She also published many volumes of her own memoirs and diaries. Her writings, her survival as the last member of the Bloomsbury circle, her personal charm, and the energy she retained into extreme old age, together made her a celebrity towards the end of her long life.