[2] Partridge did some (assistant) lecturing at University College London.

[3] She was encouraged by Janko Lavrin to begin a doctorate and she undertook a thesis into the time that Alexander Herzen spent in Russia.

In 1949 she was appointed to a lectureship in Russian at Nottingham as an Assistant Lecturer to Lavrin.

In 1990, when she was 75, a presentation was made to her of a series of essays titled "The Bell of Freedom".

[6] When she died on 19 March 2008[4] she left a bequest to the university which assisted students to be granted fellowships.