Correspondence, lists, and Penelope Fitzgerald’s notes for prizes other than the Booker Prize, such as Forward Poetry Prize (1996) and Arts Council bursaries (1989-1990). For other prize-judging activities, see Add MS 89289/3/7 and Add MS 89289/4/3.
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...
Papers relating to various societies and groups of which Penelope Fitzgerald was a member, and others reflecting her charitable activity. Fitzgerald was a member of: The Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution (HLSI) Lecture Planning Committee; Royal Society of Literature (RSL) Council (an...
17 colour photographs and a small number of photographic negatives. Some photographs feature members of Penelope Fitzgerald's family (though not immediate family and Fitzgerald herself only features in two of the photographs).
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 ...
Papers Relating to Penelope Fitzgerald’s Literary Estate
Scope & Content:
Contains papers relating to reprints, the sale of Fitzgerald papers to the Harry Ransom Center, the publication of her letters, attempts at collating an exhaustive bibliography, and Hermione Lee's biography. The series includes original and copied correspondence, and copies of her book contracts.