Penelope Fitzgerald
Penelope Fitzgerald was the author of nine novels, including Offshore, which won the Booker Prize in 1979, and The Blue Flower. She was a longtime contributor to the LRB before her death in 2000.
In the LRB Archive:
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Some people never expect to be expected: Omitted from ‘Innocence’ · 19 December 2019
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Thirteen Poems · 3 October 2002
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The Death of a Poet: Charlotte Mew · 23 May 2002
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Bringers of Ill Luck and Bad Weather: Anne Enright · 2 March 2000
- What Are You Like by Anne Enright
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Nuthouse Al: memory and culture in wartime London · 18 February 1999
- Whistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London by Jean Freedman
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What’s Happening in the Engine-Room: Poor John Lehmann · 7 January 1999
- John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure by Adrian Wright
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Renewing the Struggle: Edward White Benson · 18 June 1998
- Father of the Bensons: The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbiship of Canterbury by Geoffrey Palmer and Noel Lloyd
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Seeing and Being Seen: Humbert Wolfe · 19 March 1998
- Harlequin in Whitehall: A Life of Humbert Wolfe by Philip Bagguley
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Large and Rolling · 31 July 1997
- The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest for a Family Secret by Anthony Sampson
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Obstacles · 4 July 1996
- Edward Thomas: Selected Letters edited by R. George Thomas
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Cold Smoke, Wet Rubble · 20 July 1995
- The Silent Angel by Heinrich Böll, translated by Breon Mitchell
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Chilly · 9 February 1995
- The Film Explainer by Gert Hofmann, translated by Michael Hofmann
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Hug me, kiss me · 6 October 1994
- Such Devoted Sisters: An Anthology of Stories edited by Shena Mackay
- When the World Was Steady by Claire Messud
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Distant Sheep · 21 July 1994
- Alice by John Bayley
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Little Nips · 26 May 1994
- The Moment between the Past and the Future by Grigorij Baklanov, translated by Catherine Porter
- The Soul of a Patriot by Evgeny Popov, translated by Robert Porter
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Farewell Hong Kong · 24 February 1994
- The Mountain of Immoderate Desires by Leslie Wilson
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Sunny side up · 9 September 1993
- The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
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Family Life · 25 March 1993
- Poet and Dancer by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Peerless Flats by Esther Freud
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Ninjo · 28 January 1993
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus
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Finest People · 3 December 1992
- Letters from Margaret: Correspondence between Bernard Shaw and Margaret Wheeler 1944-50 edited by Rebecca Swift
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Grandmother’s Footsteps · 9 April 1992
- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
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Children’s Children · 7 November 1991
- Grandmothers talking to Nell Dunn
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Fried Nappy · 12 September 1991
- The Van by Roddy Doyle
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Good as boys · 15 August 1991
- The Best Type of Girl: A History of the Girls’ Independent Schools by Gillian Avery
- There’s something about a convent girl edited by Jackie Bennett and Rosemary Forgan
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Luck Dispensers · 11 July 1991
- The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
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White Nights · 11 October 1990
- In the beginning by Irina Ratushinskaya, translated by Alyona Kojevnikov
- Goodnight by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky), translated and introduced by Richard Lourie
- Comrade Princess: Memoirs of an Aristocrat in Modern Russia by Ekaterina Meshcherskaya
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Human Boys · 7 December 1989
- True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Robert and Susan Lilian Townsend by Sue Townsend
- CounterBlasts No 9: Mr Bevan’s Dream by Sue Townsend
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Living Doll and Lilac Fairy · 31 August 1989
- Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington 1893-1932 by Gretchen Gerzina
- Lydia and Maynard: Letters between Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes edited by Polly Hill and Richard Keynes
- Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Life by Joan Givner
- Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby: A Working Partnership by Jean Kennard
- Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists by Susan Leonardi
- The Selected Letters of Somerville and Ross edited by Gifford Lewis
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Russian Women · 1 June 1989
- On the Golden Porch by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Antonia Bouis
- Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women edited by Helena Goscilo
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Megawoman · 13 October 1988
- Olive Schreiner: Letters. Vol.1:1871-1899 edited by Richard Rive
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Big Books · 15 September 1988
- William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry by J.M.S. Tompkins
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Dame Cissie · 12 November 1987
- Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning
- Family Memories by Rebecca West and Faith Evans
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Kay Demarest’s War · 17 September 1987
- The Other Garden by Francis Wyndham
- The Engine of Owl-Light by Sebastian Barry
- A Singular Attraction by Ita Daly
- Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
- The Changeling by Catharine Arnold
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Various Woman · 2 April 1987
- A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley by Katherine Frank
- Marilyn by Gloria Steinem and George Barris
- Joe and Marilyn: A Memory of Love by Roger Kahn
- I leap over the wall by Monica Baldwin and Karen Armstrong
- Diary of a Zen Nun: A Moving Chronicle of Living Zen by Nan Shin (Nancy Amphoux)
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Vous êtes belle · 8 January 1987
- Alain-Fournier: A Brief Life 1886-1914 by David Arkell
- Henri Alain-Fournier: Towards the Lost Domain: Letters from London 1905 translated by W.J. Strachan
- The Lost Domain by Henri Alain-Fournier, translated by Frank Davison
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Holy Terrors · 4 December 1986
- ‘Elizabeth’: The Author of ‘Elizabeth and her German Garden’ by Karen Usborne
- Alison Uttley: The Life of a Country Child by Denis Judd
- Richmal Crompton: The Woman behind William by Mary Cadogan
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The Real Johnny Hall · 3 October 1985
- Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall by Michael Baker
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Dear Sphinx · 1 December 1983
- The Little Ottleys by Ada Leverson and Sally Beauman
- The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy and Anita Brookner
- The Constant Novelist: A Study of Margaret Kennedy 1896-1967 by Violet Powell
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Keeping warm · 30 December 1982
- Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner edited by William Maxwell
- The Portrait of a Tortoise by Gilbert White and Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Sylvia Townsend Warner: Collected Poems edited by Claire Harman
- Scenes of Childhood and Other Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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The Prescription · 2 December 1982
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Sonata for Second Fiddle · 7 October 1982
- A Half of Two Lives: A Personal Memoir by Alison Waley
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Lotti’s Leap · 1 July 1982
- Collected Poems and Prose by Charlotte Mew, edited by Val Warner
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Christina and the Sid · 18 March 1982
- Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life by Georgina Battiscombe
- The Golden Veil by Paddy Kitchen
- The Little Holland House Album by Edward Burne-Jones and John Christian
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Jerusalem · 3 December 1981
- Me Again: Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smith edited by Jack Barbera and William McBrien
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Dear Lad · 19 March 1981
- The Simple Life: C.R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds by Fiona MacCarthy
- Philip Mairet: Autobiographical and Other Papers edited by C.H. Sisson
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A Secret Richness · 20 November 1980
- A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym
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Gringo · 21 August 1980
- The Colonist by Michael Schmidt
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Following the plot · 21 February 1980
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