Penelope Fitzgerald

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born

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

died

April 28, 2000

gender

female

website

http://www.penelopefitzgerald.com/

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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Average rating: 3.54 · 3,934 ratings · 692 reviews · 22 distinct works

	The Bookshop 3.38 avg rating — 1,148 ratings — published 1978 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Blue Flower 3.43 avg rating — 877 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Offshore 3.61 avg rating — 626 ratings — published 1979 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Gate of Angels 3.69 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Beginning of Spring 3.80 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1988 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Human Voices 3.69 avg rating — 150 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	My rating:
	At Freddie's 3.53 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Golden Child 3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Innocence 3.69 avg rating — 97 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald, A.S. Byatt (Introduction) 3.67 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	My rating:

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“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

tags: insanity , madness

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“Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, Human Voices

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