11 Facts About Blanche Partington

Blanche Partington was a prominent San Francisco journalist and member of the San Francisco Bay Area literary and cultural scene.

Blanche Partington is particularly noted for her relationships with prominent California writers, including Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, and Yone Noguchi.

Blanche Partington was born in Cheshire, England to artist John Herbert Evelyn Partington and his wife, Sarah Mottershead, on October 12,1866, and christened at St Mary's Church, Stockport on November 25,1866.

Blanche Partington solved his children's education by training them himself.

John Partington established a studio and art school on Pine Street.

Blanche Partington became one of the famed humorist's favored correspondents, a position she still retained at the time of his mysterious disappearance in 1914.

In October 1898, Blanche Partington began a friendship with the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi.

Blanche Partington served as the paper's official dramatic critic until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Blanche Partington's main contribution was a regular Sunday column entitled "With the Players and the Music Folk," filled with assorted entertainment news, gossip, and interviews with local and visiting entertainers.

Blanche Partington soon became rivals for London's affections with London's future wife, Charmian Kittredge.

Blanche Partington was the last to receive a letter from Ambrose Bierce before his mysterious disappearance in Mexico in 1914.