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

As recreation they had music, drawing and painting, offered them in much the modern, progressive method of letting each child's talents unfold.

Richard and Gertrude were soon working as sketch artists for local newspapers, while Blanche and Phyllis developed their musical talents.

"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.

"[4] Partington helped Noguchi with his literary work, including an early version of The American Diary of a Japanese Girl.

In these columns and their midweek supplements Partington developed a casual interview style which foregrounded her easy camaraderie with the entertainers.

In the latter, as well as in quite a repertory of other operatic work, he had been well coached by his friend Blanche Partington, musical and dramatic critic on the San Francisco Call for seven years, who had taken him with her to many performances.

"[6] Partington's 1951 obituary notes that "More than 30 years ago she entered the practice of Christian Science and until her death maintained offices at 166 Geary Street.

On March 12, 1951, at the age of 84, she died at the family home overlooking San Francisco's Buena Vista Park.