Thirteen Poems 
Penelope Fitzgerald
The poems and drawings reproduced here were sent by Penelope Fitzgerald to her daughter Fina in 1970-71 when she was an undergraduate at Oxford. The drawings were inspired by Fina’s ‘Klee/doodles’.
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Penelope Fitzgerald, a frequent and much-missed contributor to the London Review, died in 2000. She wrote three biographies and ten works of fiction, all in print.