page_title: Blanche Partington
section_title: Ambrose Bierce
hierarchical_section_title: Blanche Partington / Ambrose Bierce
caption_attribution_description: English: J. H. E. Partington: Ambrose Bierce (painting) Українська: Портрет американського літератора Амброза Бірса (1842 - 1913/14?) (полотно, олія); зберігається в художній колекції Гантінґтонської бібліотеки (Сан-Марино, Каліфорнія, США).
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: In 1892, Blanche, then twenty-six, began an intimate friendship with fifty-one-year-old writer Ambrose Bierce. Blanche became one of the famed humorist's favored correspondents, a position she still retained at the time of his mysterious disappearance in 1914. It is generally assumed among Bierce scholars that the two were lovers, but it is clear from Bierce's early letters, during the summer of 1892, that Blanche looked to Bierce for instruction about a possible career in journalism. "When you are quite sure of the nature of your call to write--quite sure that it is not the voice of 'duty'--then let me do you such slight, poor service as my limitations and the injunctions of circumstance permit."
caption: Ambrose Bierce by J. H. E. Partington
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