Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. She was the author of nine novels, three of which – The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels – were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as the ‘Book of the Year’. It won America’s National Book Critics’ Circle Award, and this helped introduce her to a wider international readership.
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. After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford, she worked at the BBC during the war, edited a literary journal, ran a bookshop and taught at various schools, including a theatrical school; her early novels drew upon many of these experiences.
She died in April 2000, at the age of eighty-three.
Books by Penelope Fitzgerald
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The Blue Flower (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)
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Matchbook Classics Box Set
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The Bookshop
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The Bookshop
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Offshore
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The Blue Flower
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The Means of Escape
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Edward Burne-Jones
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Edward Burne-Jones
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The Golden Child
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Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends
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The Bookshop
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The Beginning of Spring
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The Gate of Angels
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Human Voices
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Charlotte Mew: and Her Friends
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Innocence
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The Golden Child
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Offshore
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The Blue Flower
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The Knox Brothers
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At Freddie’s
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Innocence
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The Means of Escape
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Offshore
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The Blue Flower
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At Freddie’s
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The Gate of Angels
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Human Voices
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The Bookshop
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The Beginning of Spring
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So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
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A House of Air
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A House of Air
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Offshore
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So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
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So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
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The Gate of Angels
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The Golden Child
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