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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 89289 Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 89289

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Title:
Penelope Fitzgerald Archive
Scope & Content:
Papers and correspondence of novelist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald, née Knox (b 1916, d 2000). Mostly English but including items in other languages. Includes autograph, typescript, printed and photocopied materials. The archive contains papers relating to Fitzgerald’s literary career, in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865-2012
Extent:

170 files

2. Add MS 89289/1

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Title:
Works
Scope & Content:
Contents largely comprise drafts of Fitzgerald's fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and reviews. Draft material and planning notes for The Bookshop can also be found at Add MS 89289/2/17. It should be noted that, occasionally, Fitzgerald recorded ideas and notes for separate works on the same single p...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-2000
Extent:
21 files

3. Add MS 89289/1-6

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Title:
Papers of Penelope Fitzgerald
Scope & Content:
Contains papers relating to Fitzgerald's literary career and writings, both fiction and non-fiction, including drafts, fragments, notebooks, research materials, and correspondence. Also includes papers relating to auxiliary activities such as prize judging and lectures, an extensive collection o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Spanish
Date Range:
1847-2000
Extent:

132 files

4. Add MS 89289/1/1

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Title:
Poetry by Penelope Fitzgerald
Scope & Content:
33 pages, typescript with illustrations in blue and red colour outline, and occasional annotations by Fitzgerald. Includes: The arrival of the stray cat; The kitchen drawer poem; The Father and the Mother; Song of the 2 Bread Fairies; Feeling and Reason; Jug poem; The 2 Lovers Poem; The White ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1960s]
Extent:
1 folder

5. Add MS 89289/1/1-9

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Title:
Fiction and Poetry
Scope & Content:
Contains notes, typescripts, proofs, reviews, correspondence, and research materials relating to Fitzgerald's fiction and poetry.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1957-2000
Extent:
9 files

6. Add MS 89289/1/2

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Title:
'Eliza' Notes
Scope & Content:
Manuscript notes for, and a draft letter proposing, an adaptation, by Penelope Fitzgerald, of Barry Pain's Eliza.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 20th century
Extent:
1 folder

7. Add MS 89289/1/3

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Title:
The Golden Child Drafts
Scope & Content:
Four notebooks of drafts for Fitzgerald's 'The Golden Opinion', later called The Golden Child, her first published novel.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1975-1976]
Extent:
1 folder (4 notebooks)

8. Add MS 89289/1/4

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Title:
The Beginning of Spring: General Correspondence and Reviews
Scope & Content:
The contents reflect responses to Fitzgerald's The Beginning of Spring, and contain reviews, general correspondence (mostly from fans) and other items relating to the novel, collected and kept together by Fitzgerald (and not separated into other series during cataloguing, for that reason). The ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1989-7 Jul 1992
Extent:
1 folder

9. Add MS 89289/1/5

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Title:
The Means of Escape: Full Proof (Paste-up)
Scope & Content:
Full proof (paste-up) of Penelope Fitzgerald's The Means of Escape. Whilst the actual publication of this collection of short stories was posthumous, this proof was printed before Fitzgerald’s death and so has been included in her sub-fonds rather than that of her Literary Estate.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 2000
Extent:
1 folder

10. Add MS 89289/1/6

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Title:
Published Fiction: Fragments
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2nd half of the 20th century
Extent:

1 folder