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	Penelope Fitzgerald Biography Summary
		Penelope Fitzgerald's novels are described by Frank Kermode in the London Review of Books as "the kind of fiction in which perfection is almost to be hoped for." Louis B. Jones, in The New York Times Book Review (1 March 1992), places Fitzgerald firmly...
		Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December, 1916 - 28 April, 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning British poet, essayist and biographer.
		Penelope Fitzgerald, 83, a prize-winning British author who wrote a series of understated novels after embarking on a literary career late in life, died here April 28 after a stroke.
	www.bookrags.com /Penelope_Fitzgerald (401 words)

	Penelope Fitzgerald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 - 28 April 2000) was an English poet, novelist and biographer.
		She was the daughter of Punch editor Edward Knox and the niece of theologian and crime writer Ronald Knox, cryptographer Dilly Knox and Bible scholar Wilfred Knox.
		Fitzgerald's final novel, The Blue Flower, published in 1995, centers on the 18th century German poet and philosopher Novalis, and his love for what is portrayed as a rather ordinary child.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penelope_Fitzgerald (717 words)

	Penelope Fitzgerald Papers
		Fitzgerald began writing fiction after her husband was diagnosed with cancer in the 1970s, partly in an effort to entertain him through his illness.
		Fitzgerald won the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for lifetime achievement in literature in 1996 and was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Prize in 1997 for Blue Flower, her fictional biography of the German Romantic poet Novalis.
		Fitzgerald's inventories of documents are filed at the end of the materials for each work and provide additional information about items in the collection.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/fitzgerald.penelope.html (1451 words)

	Penelope Fitzgerald \| News \| guardian.co.uk Books
		The novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, who has died aged 83, was one of the most distinctive and elegant voices in contemporary British fiction.
		Fitzgerald was the second child of Edmund George Valpy "Evoe" Knox and his wife, Christina Hicks, and was educated at Wycombe Abbey and Somerville College, Oxford, to which she won a scholarship.
		Fitzgerald's first novel, The Golden Child (1977), which was written to divert her husband during his last illness, took the form of the classic detective story.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,216535,00.html (1041 words)

	Penelope Fitzgerald Criticism (Vol. 143)
		Fitzgerald was short-listed three times for the Booker Prize with The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring (1988), and The Gate of Angels (1990) and won the Booker prize for fiction with Offshore in 1979 and The Blue Flower (1995) in 1995.
		Fitzgerald's first novel, The Golden Child (1977), is a mystery set in an art museum where a prized exhibit is discovered to be a forgery, a well-known explorer is murdered, and human foibles and deception (resulting from struggles for power and authority) among museum staff members are exposed.
		Fitzgerald's concern for a sense of place and its effect on character are important elements in her next two novels, Innocence (1986) and The Beginning of Spring.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/fitzgerald-penelope (1004 words)

	Amazon.fr : Human Voices: Livres en anglais: Penelope Fitzgerald (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Now that Fitzgerald has widened her audience hereABlue Flower was published to rave reviews and the 1997 NBCC fiction awardAHoughton Mifflin is releasing her early novels in paperback.
		Fitzgerald conveys the peculiar intimacy and secrecy of wartime: people disappear from this strange little world very easily and almost without comment, yet, besieged as they are by the fear that England will soon go the way of occupied France, they cling to each other fiercely.
		Fitzgerald's clipped, unsentimental and yet sympathetic irony perfectly describes the moment when the British stiff upper lip begins to tremble in the face of overwhelming historical and emotional events.
	www.amazon.fr /Human-Voices-Penelope-Fitzgerald/dp/039595617X (914 words)

	Amazon.fr : Offshore: Livres en anglais: Penelope Fitzgerald (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Penelope Fitzgerald views her creations with deep but wry compassion.
		Fitzgerald, whose Innocence was published to acclaim here last year, won the Booker Prize in 1979 with this earlier novel.
		With economical prose and wonderfully vivid dialogue, she fashions a wry, fast-moving story whose ambiguous ending is exactly right, although it leaves readers (and one of the characters) hanging.
	www.amazon.fr /Offshore-Penelope-Fitzgerald/dp/0006542565 (916 words)

	Penelope Fitzgerald: A Voice Amidst the Blitz - 5/17/1999 - Publishers Weekly
		Fitzgerald was born in 1916, in Lincoln, though the family moved to London when her father took the helm of Punch.
		Fitzgerald is notoriously reticent about her married life, noting only that "while we had our difficulties, we never actually separated." Nonetheless, it was her husband who inspired her first attempt at fiction, 1977's The Golden Child, a mystery novel that was written to entertain her husband during his final illness.
		Fitzgerald has never been represented by an agent, saying that "They're obviously very good to have, but I feel they just make an added complication." While she has yet to embark on a promotional tour in the States, she says that letters from American readers help her feel connected to her audience here.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA166862.html (1879 words)

	The quiet genius of Penelope Fitzgerald \| Books \| guardian.co.uk
		When Philip Hensher suggested just after Penelope Fitzgerald died in 2000 that an undiscovered novel "would have the value, in English literature, of an unknown work by Lawrence, Conrad or Waugh," some must have thought this a comparison a little overblown.
		Fitzgerald was a wonderful writer, and since her death in 2000 her reputation has continued to soar.
		Despite a late start (she began writing her first novel when she was almost 60, composing it as a diversion for her dying husband), she gained immense popular and critical acclaim during the last 20 years of her life.
	blogs.guardian.co.uk /books/2008/05/the_quiet_genius_of_penelope_f.html (1541 words)

	Salon Obituary \| Penelope Fitzgerald dies at 83
		Fitzgerald, whose first book was published when she was almost 60, died Friday in London two days after suffering a small stroke, said her cousin, Oliver Knox.
		Among Fitzgerald's most heralded works was her latest, "The Blue Flower," a novel set in 18th-century Germany that tells the story of a young artist, later to become the poet-writer-philosopher Novalis, and his romance with a 12-year-old girl.
		In 1953, she was married to Desmond Fitzgerald, and she waited to begin writing until after their son and two daughters were grown.
	archive.salon.com /people/obit/2000/05/02/fitzgerald/print.html (471 words)

	THE BOOKSHOP
		When she speaks to her MP nephew and other high-placed friends about her proposed ''Centre for Music and the Arts,'' it is not long before ''a faint resolution formed that something might have to be done, or Violet might become rather a nuisance,'' and Florence's sad fate is sealed.
		Fitzgerald, who was 60 when her first novel, ''The Golden Child'', was published and who herself once ran a bookshop, aims to teach us a lesson here about the unexpected pitfalls that threaten intelligent, well-intentioned women who try to start over in middle age.
		But she also has a lot to say about innocence, courage and endurance, about eroding small towns, about ''the dangers of pretending that human beings are not divided into exterminators and exterminates,'' even, with eerie timeliness, about the ebb and flow of bookshops.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/091897/bookshop.htm (1020 words)

	The Hindu : A sense of inner bonds
		Penelope Fitzgerald is best at subtle wisdom marked by a sense of humour that can leave one breathless, says SUSAN VISVANATHAN.
		PENELOPE FITZGERALD began to write fiction when she was over 60 years old.
		That Fitzgerald is able to get into the heart of Florentian society in the `50s is amazing — it tells us how important summer holidays and travel are to the novelist.
	www.hindu.com /lr/2003/09/07/stories/2003090700120200.htm (877 words)

	Penelope Fitzgerald
		Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction.
		A superb biographer and critic, Penelope Fitzgerald was also the author of lives of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (her first book), the poet Charlotte Mew and The Knox Brothers - a study of her remarkable father Edmund Knox, editor of Punch, and his equally remarkable brothers.
		Penelope Fitzgerald did not embark on her literary career until the age of sixty.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /f/penelope-fitzgerald (286 words)

	Spot-On: Marshal Zeringue: The Novels of Penelope Fitzgerald
		Everyone must think their favorite writers do not get the attention they deserve and that's how I feel about Penelope Fitzgerald, the British writer who died on April 28, 2000.
		Nevertheless, as a self-appointed apostle for Penelope Fitzgerald's work, let me add a few more words to the campaign to draw more readers to her books.
		But Fitzgerald finds a backhanded or dry way to leaven the deeper themes: your heart goes out to these characters even as you realize there is something absurd and funny in the human condition.
	www.spot-on.com /archives/zeringue/2006/11/the_novels_of_penelope_fitzger.html (976 words)

	The Salt-Box: Penelope Fitzgerald (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I'd never really heard of Penelope Fitzgerald until A. Byatt gave her installment of the Richard Ellmann lectures at...
		I'd never really heard of Penelope Fitzgerald until A. Byatt gave her installment of the Richard Ellmann lectures at Emory University in 1998.
		Fitzgerald, as I'm sure everyone else on the planet knows, is a splendid novelist, full of intelligence, wry humor, and clear-eyed observation.
	jbj.wordherders.net /archives/001191.html (333 words)

	New Statesman - Although celebrity came to her only with age, Penelope Fitzgerald wrote beautifully about childhood - ...
		This is a book to remind us that art is long and life far too short; Penelope Fitzgerald died in 2000, and as readers of her fine novels still miss her, so do readers of the review pages, to which she brought lucidity, immediacy and a watchful courtesy born of long experience.
		Two of Fitzgerald's uncles were distinguished priests - Wilfred Knox, an Anglo-Catholic and a wit, and Ronald Knox, a Roman Catholic and a scholar (Knox was a writer, too, of detective stories).
		Penelope Fitzgerald grew up first in rural Sussex, then in a Queen Anne house in Well Walk, Hampstead, at a time when sheep still grazed on the heath and from the top of the house there was a clear view to Westminster, so that residents could see the flag flying on the Houses of Parliament.
	www.newstatesman.com /200311030039 (1198 words)

	Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary – FREE Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Find Fitzgerald, Penelope ...
		Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary – FREE Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary Information
		Fitzgerald, Penelope Mary (1916–2000) British novelist and biographer.
		reenactment of conspiratorial plotting by Penelope and Eurycleia, they claim that they were killed because they knew of Penelope's liaison with Amphinomus.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-FitzgeraldPenelopeMary.html (549 words)

	Shelved Dreams in Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop
		In honor and memory of Penelope Fitzgerald, who passed away in May, this month's column will review her novel The Bookshop.
		Fitzgerald was a late literary bloomer; she began writing and publishing novels (two completely different activities) when she was in her 60's.
		Florence, a widow (like Fitzgerald), esteems to open a bookshop in her small community, which is peopled with eccentric inhabitants, each with his or her own agenda.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_literature/40726 (449 words)

	Penelope Fitzgerald Papers
		The primary challenge in arranging and listing Fitzgerald's literary papers is due to her method of writing in notebooks on multiple subjects.
		Also present are articles by Fitzgerald, a contract with Collins Publishers for At Freddie's, a playscript of The Beginning of Spring adapted by Michael Pennington, essays and reviews, introductions and afterwords, ideas for novels, and short stories.
		Career-Related Material includes articles about Fitzgerald, notes for conferences and judging literary prizes, interviews, lectures, and notebooks on a variety of subjects, from 1968-1969 teaching notes to Fitzgerald's 1991 trip to Tasmania for a literary festival.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/fitzgerald.addition.html (551 words)

	Penelope Fitzgerald: An Inventory of Her Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
		Fitzgerald began writing fiction after her husband was diagnosed with cancer in the 1970s, partly in an effort to entertain him through his illness.
		Fitzgerald won the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for lifetime achievement in literature in 1996 and was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Prize in 1997 for Blue Flower, her fictional biography of the German Romantic poet Novalis.
		Fitzgerald's inventories of documents are filed at the end of the materials for each work and provide additional information about items in the collection.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00037/00037-P.html (1430 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Penelope Fitzgerald
		Fitzgerald, Penelope, Illustrated by: Photographs Charlotte Mew and Her Friends with a Selection of Her Poems Publisher: Addison Wesley 1988.
		Fitzgerald, Penelope, Illustrated by: Photographs Charlotte Mew and Her Friends with a Selection of Her Poems Publisher: Addison Wesley 1989.
		Fitzgerald, Penelope The Knox Brothers Edmund 1881-1971, Dillwyn 1884-1943, Wilfred 1886-1950, Ronald 1888-1957 1977, Counterpoint, Wash. 2000, 1st.prtg.thus, 8vo.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Penelope_Fitzgerald (851 words)

	Fitzgerald Penelope « Asylum
		I’d heard such frequent and lavish praise for Penelope Fitzgerald - and her books were so, well, beautifully slim - that I’d been meaning to read her for ages.
		And not hurrying certainly gave her some source material from her life to write about: four of her first five novels were based on her own experiences, in a drama school, a houseboat community, and working at the BBC.
		Those who made it were somewhat unwilling to part with their Fragrant Moments and engagement books, which were what Florence really wanted, unless she would also take the pile of novels which had the air, in their slightly worn jackets, of women on whom no one had ever made any demand.
	theasylum.wordpress.com /category/fitzgerald-penelope (755 words)

	bookideas.com: The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
		The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald proves that the challenges of small-town life are not unique to the United States.
		When relative newcomer Florence Green opens a bookshop in the English coastal town of Hardborough she is forced to admit that her home of ten years is still very much a foreign land.
		Penelope Fitzgerald is a star among England's contemporary writers, the winner of the prestigious Booker Prize in 1979.
	www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=1208 (325 words)

	THE BEST HUMOR AND TRAGEDY OF PENELOPE FITZGERALD - Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore - Epinions.com
		Fitzgerald is a delightfully crisp writer whose plots derive from her characters.
		Fitzgerald didn't begin writing until age 60 and died at 83 in 2000.
		I feel the wisdom of combining tragedy and humor and her attitude toward her characters is the wisdom that is brought with age.
	www.epinions.com /content_44155178628?linkin_id=7001245 (733 words)

	Penelope Fitzgerald's Imagination Lives On / Her last story collection brims with comedy, horror and satire
		Fitzgerald, who died this year at 83, published her first novel when she was 60.
		Humor, horror, satire, history: Fitzgerald's genre-hopping here seems playful, as though the author is trying on different hats, but the tensile strength of her writing pulls these stories together as a group.
		Ultimately, though, Fitzgerald knew what readers want most: to be surprised and delighted, to be taken places they've never been before in the company of intriguing, convincing characters.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/10/22/RV61532.DTL (1170 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Penelope Fitzgerald - Books: Meet the Writers
		The then 81-year-old Fitzgerald was selected as winner of the NBCC Award over fellow nominees Don DeLillo, Philip Roth and Charles Frazier, winning her first American literary award.
		Much of her previous sixty years' experience informs her writing, from her days as a lowly assistant at the BBC (Human Voices), to a stint living on a houseboat in the Thames (Offshore), to working at a bookstore in a seaside village (The Bookshop).
		Fitzgerald was born into a distinguished intellectual and professional family, the daughter of E. Knox, who was editor of Punch, and the granddaughter on both sides of Anglican bishops (her father and three uncles are the subjects of her biography, The Knox Brothers).
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writerdetails.asp?userid=69XQN323OB&cid=968050 (287 words)

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