'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...
Restoration Plays (London: Dent, 1964); Geoffrey Faber, Oxford Apostles (London: Penguin, 1954); Charles Carrington, Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work (London: Penguin, 1970); Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Stories (London: Dent, 1975) annotated by Penelope Fitzgerald
Contains photocopies of Fitzgerald’s contributions to E V Knox, In My Old Days; Mrs Oliphant, Salem Chapel; Robert Stewart, ed., End Games; Contemporary Authors; Clare Boylan, ed., The Agony and the Ego; Ronald B Shwartz, For the Love of Books; and an Italian translation of her introduction to J ...
Posthumous Recognition of, and Research Resources Relating to, Penelope Fitzgerald
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Includes: papers relating to a Royal Society of Literature event celebrating Fitzgerald’s life and work, a Somerville College creative writing prize established in Fitzgerald’s memory, and a Somerville London Literary Group talk on Fitzgerald by Stuart Proffitt and Raleigh Trevelyan, with transcr...
Exhibition programmes, catalogues, and arts-related keepsakes collected by Penelope Fitzgerald. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Catalogue 36; Prelude to the Last Decade: Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Summer of 1872; and Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet are lightly annotated by Fitzgerald.
Fragments of drafts/proofs for published novels by Penelope Fitzgerald, including: • The Blue Flower – one page of notes and one page of draft (both autograph). • The Gate of Angels – collated proof with colour-coded corrections (typescript). With a photograph of the Aerated Bread Company prem...
Autobiographical writings by Penelope Fitzgerald: • Draft material fragments for ‘A Country Childhood’ (manuscript and annotated typescript). One of the pages of notes also has notes relating to ‘In Praise of the Family’. Also includes a photocopy of the published version. • Incomplete copy o...
Two black and white photographs, one of Rawle Knox (Penelope Fitzgerald's brother) taken by Robin Adler, and one of Florence Shephard, painting on a Cornwall beach.