Penelope Fitzgerald’s Writings for The Isis and The Cherwell
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Photocopies of Penelope Fitzgerald’s contributions to The Cherwell newspaper and The Isis magazine (University of Oxford student publications) published between 29 Apr 1936 and 10 Jun 1939. Her contributions include short prose and reviews of books and events; Fitzgerald also features as the sub...
Includes page proofs of the preliminaries and end matter of Penelope Fitzgerald: A House of Air - Selected Writings, ed. Terence Dooley (London: Harper Perennial, 2005). Dooley was Fitzgerald’s son-in-law.
Papers Relating to Hermione Lee’s Biography of Penelope Fitzgerald
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Includes correspondence, photocopies of newspaper cuttings relating to the family, and a transcript of a 1979 BBC radio interview with Fitzgerald, following her Booker Prize win. Lee’s biography, Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, was published by Chatto and Windus in 2013.
Papers Relating to the Penelope Fitzgerald Papers at the Harry Ransom Center
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Contains correspondence regarding the sale of some of Fitzgerald’s papers to the HRC, copies of letters and drafts held there, notes on the holdings made by Terence Dooley, Fitzgerald’s son-in-law, and inventories.