JULIA, A PORTRAIT OF JULIA STRACHEY BY HERSELF AND FRANCES PARTRIDGE

by Julia Strachey, Frances Partridge

Following Julia Strachey's death, her life-long friend Frances Partridge was presented with an extraordinary assortment of her papers. Combining material from this source and extracts from the correspondence between the two friends, this book presents an account of the life of a remarkable woman.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Julia Strachey (August, 1901–1979) was an English writer, born in Allahabad, India, where her father, Oliver Strachey, the elder brother of Lytton Strachey, was a civil servant. Her mother, Ruby, was of Swiss-German origin. For most of Julia's life she lived in England, where she worked as a model at Poiret, as a photographer and as a publisher's reader, before she embarked upon a career in novel-writing. She is perhaps best remembered for her work Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, a book originally published by the Hogarth Press and recently reprinted by Persephone Books.

Published works:

- Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (1932), reprinted by Persephone Books in 2009
- 'Fragments of a Diary' (1940)
- 'Pioneer City' (1943)
- The Man on the Pier (1951), reprinted by Penguin in 1978 under the title An Integrated Man
- 'Animalia', published by the New Yorker under the title 'Can't you get me out of here?' (1959)
- 'Complements of the season', short story published in Turnstile One, edited by V. S. Pritchett. Published by Turnstile Press. (1948)

Reviews

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

After I bought this book I was tentative about starting it because I had come across Julia in many other biographies and she came across as a difficult woman and I hesitated to dive into her life thinking it would be unpleasant. I persisted and it paid off...Frances Partridge is such a good writer and she cared about Julia and made her life interesting and balanced.