Frances Partridge, Bloomsbury and Paignton

I'm really looking forward to receiving this book in the post tomorrow, on publication day. I've always found the 'Bloomsbury Group' fascinating, and have read all of Frances Partridge's diaries with great interest. She was so well-behaved and sensible in the midst of a sea of self-indulgence. It is too late at night to look it up now, but I am sure that Virginia Woolf must have had something unpleasant to say about her. Actually, no, she probably regarded her as unimportant.

I recently discovered that my great-great grandparents and a great aunt looked after Virginia Woolf's 'mad' half-sister, Laura Stephen, at their house in Paignton for quite a number of years in the 1880s. Virginia tried to pretend that she didn't exist, and had virtually no contact with her, but even so, it's a brush with immortality, and a great discovery for a 'Bloomsbury' fan like me.