Samuel Beckett, Endgame (London: Faber and Faber, 1958); Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (London: Penguin, 1977); Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (London: Penguin, 1967) annotated by Penelope Fitzgerald
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With a press cutting, in two pieces, on H. G. Wells and Bernard Shaw, originally placed between pp. 72-3 of Man and Superman.
E. M. Forster, Howards End (London: Penguin, 1967); Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (London: Penguin, 1972) annotated by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Notes by Fitzgerald on 'Russian Character' originally placed between pp. 74-5 of the Conrad volume. The notes are on the verso of headed writing paper (30 Hereford Square, Kensington, London, S. W. 7, then recto of which is marked 'With the compliments of Mrs H. G. Darwin. An article from the Lo...
Jane Austen, Persuasion (London: Penguin, 1973); Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, Selected Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 1962); L. P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda (London: Faber and Faber, 1952) annotated by Penelope Fitzgerald
Helen Darbishire, ed., Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (London: OUP, 1963); G. K. Chesteron, ed., Charles Dickens Christmas Books (London: J. M. Dent, 1925) annotated by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Includes Fitzgerald's notes written on British Library book reservation slips, originally placed between pp. 70-1 of the Wordsworth volume.
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days (London: Faber and Faber, 1968); Mary Bennett, The Ilberts in India 1882-1886 (London: BACSA, 1995); Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (London: New English Library, 1961) annotated by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Includes a compliments slip for the Bennett book and notes scribbled by Fitzgerald on a ticket for a William Morris Society celebration of Morris's birthday, originally placed between pp. 52-3 of the Bennett book but appearing to relate to Morris.
Marguerite Caetani, ed., An Anthology of New Italian Writers (London: John Lehmann, 1951) annotated by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Works selected from Botteghe Oscure. With a photocopy of a letter (of Oct 1984) to Fitzgerald from Dr Ennio Troili, of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura confirming that Guglielmo Petroni, one of the anthology's featured authors, is still alive.