Contains cuttings collected by Penelope Fitzgerald: Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 'Gladstone on Homer', Times Literary Supplement 3 Jan 1975, extracted from Add MS 89289/2/14. Graham Stanton, 'A Supreme Fiction?', review of G A Wells, Did Jesus Exist?, Times Literary Supplement 29 Aug 1975, extracted from A...
Subjects covered include but are not limited to: Birmingham; a summary of R A Knox’s life and faith; A E Housman letters, Henry Lamb, Gilbert Spencer, A Spiritual Aeneid (R A Knox), Bletchley Park and Dilly [A D Knox].
Includes some correspondence to A D Knox (a mixture of originals and copies) including a letter from Walter Headlam from 1891. Part way through the notebook are some poems by Fitzgerald's daughter Christina, from the 1960s.
This bundle of assorted papers was with the notebooks when the archive entered the British Library, hence its appearance here rather than with Series 1: Works. As well as research notes and some drafting for The Knox Brothers, the bundle contains a letter from Mary Knox and a photocopy of the pla...
Contains notes on Fitzgerald's father, E V Knox, and her three uncles; and lists of things to do as well as people and sources to consult. Includes some of Fitzgerald's own recollections. Other individuals mentioned on the fronts of the books, or inside, include: Rose Macauley, Leonard Woolf, and...
Knox Book 3: notes on the history of Punch, Victorian Oxford, Maynard Keynes and other subjects (includes loose pages of notes on Georgian poets referencing Harold Monro and the Poetry Bookshop). Knox Book 4: notes on code-breaking in World War I, Room 40 and Dillwyn Knox as well as some notes ...
Knox Book 5: notes on Wilfred Knox, A E Housman, Catholicism and religion in England. Knox Book 6: notes on Punch, and the Knox family; Winifred Peck on Ronald Knox’s character.
'P M Fitzgerald' notebook: contains notes from Penelope Fitzgerald's reading about contemporary English novelists, identity and characterisation in fiction writing and various authors, including Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy, Greene, Beckett, Orwell, Thackeray, Twain, Huxley and many more. Coverles...