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.

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Vol. 20 No. 6 · 19 March 1998
page 11 | 1942 words

Seeing and Being Seen

Penelope Fitzgerald

Harlequin in Whitehall: A Life of Humbert Wolfe by Philip Bagguley
Nyala, 439 pp, £24.50, May 1997, ISBN 0 9529376 0 3

‘An obituary,’ Virginia Woolf wrote on Saturday, 6 January 1940.

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