Oversized materials include one promotional poster for The Beginning of Spring and printed materials. A third series was added comprising personal materials not related toįitzgerald's writings. There are also research materials included in the creative works seriesĮach title. Nearly half of the materials are research notebooks filled with various notes, writings,Ĭlippings.

Reflect the research and production phases of her works as well as the responses to Research notes, manuscripts, correspondence, printed materials, contracts, and photographs,ġ971-1988 (8 document cases), document the literary works of Penelope Fitzgerald.Īs received in two series representing her creative works and research notebooks, Her collectedĮssays, A House of Air and The Afterlife, were also published posthumously in 2003. A collection of her short stories, The Means of Escape, was published later that year. Penelope Fitzgerald died on April 28, 2000. Prize for lifetime achievement in literature in 1996 and was awarded the NationalĬritics Circle Prize in 1997 for Blue Flower, her fictionalīiography of the German Romantic poet Novalis. She was also shortlisted for Innocence (1986), The Beginning of Spring (1988)Īnd The Gate of Angels (1990). Her second novel, The Bookshop, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978, and inġ979 Fitzgerald won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore. Partly in an effort to entertain him through his illness. Three brothers in The Knox Brothers (1977).įitzgerald began writing fiction after her husband was diagnosed with cancer in the Writing career as the biographer of Edward Burne-Jones ( Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography, 1975) and of her father and his Of Food, for the BBC, in a haunted bookshop in Southwold, and as an English teacher.įirst professional experience in writing came in the 1950s when she worked as an assistantĮditor for the literary magazine, World Review. Her work experience was varied and included working in the

Penelope attended Somerville College and, in 1941, married Desmond Fitzgerald with Knox, was well known as a translator of the Bible and a writer of detective stories. Knox, editor of Punch magazine (1932-1949). Penelope Knox Fitzgerald was born into a literary family on December 17, 1916, inĮngland.

William and Mary by Penelope Farmer