Editing Eric Partridge (section)

==Career==
After receiving his degree, Partridge became Queensland Travelling Fellow at [[Balliol College, Oxford|Balliol College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]],<ref name=Partridge1963p21/> where he worked on both an MA on eighteenth-century English romantic poetry, and a B.Litt in comparative literature.<ref name=Partridge1963p26/> He subsequently taught in a grammar school in Lancashire for a brief interval, then in the two years beginning September 1925, took lecturing positions at the Universities of [[University of Manchester|Manchester]] and [[University of London|London]].<ref name=Crystal2002/><ref name=Partridge1969/> From 1923, he "found a second home", occupying the same desk (K1) in the [[British Library|British Museum Library]] (as it was then known) for the next fifty years. In 1925 he married Agnes Dora Vye-Parminter, who in 1933 bore a daughter, Rosemary Ethel Honeywood Mann.<ref name=Crystal2002/><ref name=CurrentBiography1964p316/> In 1927 he founded the [[Scholartis Press]], which he managed until it closed in 1931.<ref name=Partridge1963p27/>

During the twenties he wrote fiction under the pseudonym 'Corrie Denison'; ''Glimpses'', a book of stories and sketches, was published by the Scholartis Press in 1928. The Scholartis Press published more than 60 books in these four years,<ref name=Crystal2002/> including ''Songs and Slang of the British Soldier 1914-1918'', which Partridge co-authored with [[John Brophy (writer)|John Brophy]]. From 1932 he commenced writing in earnest.  His next major work on slang, ''Slang Today and Yesterday'', appeared in 1933, and his well-known ''[[Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English]]'' followed in 1937.<ref name=Crystal2002/>

During the [[Second World War]], Partridge served in the [[Royal Army Educational Corps|Army Education Corps]], later transferring to the RAF's correspondence department, before returning to his British Museum desk in 1945.<ref name=Crystal2002/>

Partridge wrote more than forty books on the English language, including well-known works on [[etymology]] and [[slang]]. He also wrote books on [[tennis]], which he played well.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Description of 'Partridge, Eric, Papers of Eric Partridge and Paul Beale relating to English slang, 1974-1999.|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb29-eulms138|access-date=2021-05-25|website=University of Exeter Archives}}</ref> His papers are archived at the [[University of Birmingham]], [[British Library]], [[King's College, Cambridge]], the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]], the [[University of Exeter]], the [[University of San Francisco]], [[Warwickshire]] Record Office, and [[William Salt Library]].

He died in [[Moretonhampstead]], [[Devon]], in 1979, aged 85.