Blanche Partington
Blanche Partington was a prominent San Francisco journalist and member of the San Francisco Bay Area literary and cultural scene. She is particularly noted for her relationships with prominent California writers, including Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, and Yone Noguchi.
Blanche Partington was born to artist John Herbert Evelyn Partington and his wife, Sarah Mottershead, in Cheshire, England, and was christened on November 25, 1866, at St Marys Church, Stockport. Blanche was the eldest of seven children, all of whom would achieve success in careers connected with the arts, among them, artists Richard Langtry Partington and Gertrude Partington Albright as artists, Phyllis Partington , and theater manager John Allan Partington. The family lived briefly in Heysham, Lancashire, and Ramsey, Isle of Man during the 1880s. John H. E. Partington was a great lover of travel and moved his family so often that no formal schooling was possible. He solved his childrens education by training them himself. After they had learned to read and write, he read them famous poems which they were then asked to recite from memory. As recreation they had music, drawing and painting, offered them in much the modern, progressive method of letting each childs talents unfold.
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