Burgo Partridge (1935–1963)
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- Officiële naam
- Partridge, Lytton Burgo
- Geboortedatum
- 1935
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1963
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- England
UK - Geboorteplaats
- London, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- aortic aneurysm
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
- Beroepen
- novelist
- Relaties
- Partridge, Frances (mother)
Garnett, Henrietta (wife)
Partridge, Ralph (father) - Korte biografie
- Lytton Burgo Partridge was born in London, a son of Ralph Partridge and Frances Marshall Partridge, members of the famed Bloomsbury Group. He was named after Lytton Strachey. In 1962, he married Henrietta Garnett, age 17, a daughter of Angelica and David Garnett, two other Bloomsbury members. He died suddenly of heart failure in 1963, only four weeks after the birth of their baby daughter Sophie. He had already published a successful novel, A History of Orgies (1958).
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A History of Orgies door Burgo Partridge
A brief skimming offers some promise of pleasant diversion. There is a long chapter on Francis Dashwood and his abbey doings, much meatier than anything found in Eric Towers' so-called biography - including a description of the Earl of Sandwich's characteristic lope: "as though he were trying to walk both sides of the street at the same time". There is Crowley and his rancid love-ins at his own abbey, where his five year old son, a precociously impertinent drug addict, will, as "beast number two" get what he wants and right now "or else."… (meer)
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Randy_Hierodule | 2 andere besprekingen | Jan 9, 2009 | Book Description: Bonanza, NY, 1960. "B" on copyright page of unknown significance. 8vo, 247pp. Light and orange cloth.
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- #93,239
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