Frances Partridge, one of the last surviving members of the Bloomsbury Group, has died at the age of 103.

The writer and literary journalist became an intimate of the famous literary set, the Bloomsbury Group, through friendship and marriage. The set was named after the area of London where they socialised and was well known for its frank prose and rejection of Victorian values.

Born Frances Marshall, the sixth child of an architect, she was educated at Newnham College, where she read English and Moral Sciences.

For years Frances was the companion of Ralph Partridge who she later married in 1933. They had one son, Burgo, who died in 1963.

As well as translating many books from French and Spanish, she co-edited the Greville Memoirs with her husband. Other books by Frances include Memories and Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. She is best known for six volumes of diaries: A Pacifist War 1939-1945, Everything to Lose 1945-1960, Hanging On 1960-1963, Other People 1963-1966, Good Company 1967-1970 and Life Regained 1970-1972.

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