Penelope Fitzgerald



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Penelope Fitzgerald

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born
in Lincoln, England, The United Kingdom
December 17, 1916

died
April 28, 2000

gender
female

website

genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction


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She was the daughter of Punch editor Edmund Knox (E.V. Knox) and the niece of theologian and crime writer Ronald Knox (Ronald A. Knox), cryptographer Dilly Knox and Bible scholar Wilfred Knox.

"When I was young," Fitzgerald later wrote, "I took my father and my three uncles for granted, and it never occurred to me that everyone else wasn't like them. Later on, I found that this was a mistake, but I've never quite managed to adapt myself to it. I suppose they were unusual, but I still think that they were right, and insofar as the world disagrees with them, I disagree with the world."

She was educated at Wycombe Abbey and Somerville College, Oxford, 1939; she worked for the BBC as a writer and recorded program assistant, during World War II a...more


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Penelope Fitzgerald's Books

Average rating: 3.55 · 5,747 ratings · 916 reviews · 31 distinct works · Similar authors
The Bookshop
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 1,622 ratings — published 1978 — 19 editions
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The Blue Flower
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 1,239 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions
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Offshore
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,101 ratings — published 1979 — 15 editions
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The Gate of Angels
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1990 — 12 editions
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The Beginning of Spring
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions
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Human Voices
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 1980 — 8 editions
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At Freddie's
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions
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The Golden Child
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions
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Innocence
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions
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The Means of Escape
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions
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Quotes by Penelope Fitzgerald

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald
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“Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, Charlotte Mew And Her Friends
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“Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
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