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:

• Some people never expect to be expected: Omitted from ‘Innocence’ · 19 December 2019

• Thirteen Poems · 3 October 2002

• The Death of a Poet: Charlotte Mew · 23 May 2002

• Bringers of Ill Luck and Bad Weather: Anne Enright · 2 March 2000

  • What Are You Like by Anne Enright

• Nuthouse Al: memory and culture in wartime London · 18 February 1999

  • Whistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London by Jean Freedman

• What’s Happening in the Engine-Room: Poor John Lehmann · 7 January 1999

  • John Lehmann: A Pagan Adventure by Adrian Wright

• 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

• Seeing and Being Seen: Humbert Wolfe · 19 March 1998

  • Harlequin in Whitehall: A Life of Humbert Wolfe by Philip Bagguley

• Large and Rolling · 31 July 1997

  • The Scholar Gypsy: The Quest for a Family Secret by Anthony Sampson

• Obstacles · 4 July 1996

  • Edward Thomas: Selected Letters edited by R. George Thomas

• Cold Smoke, Wet Rubble · 20 July 1995

  • The Silent Angel by Heinrich Böll, translated by Breon Mitchell

• Chilly · 9 February 1995

  • The Film Explainer by Gert Hofmann, translated by Michael Hofmann

• 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

• Distant Sheep · 21 July 1994

  • Alice by John Bayley

• 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

• Farewell Hong Kong · 24 February 1994

  • The Mountain of Immoderate Desires by Leslie Wilson

• Sunny side up · 9 September 1993

  • The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

• Family Life · 25 March 1993

  • Poet and Dancer by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Peerless Flats by Esther Freud

• Ninjo · 28 January 1993

  • Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Megan Backus

• Finest People · 3 December 1992

  • Letters from Margaret: Correspondence between Bernard Shaw and Margaret Wheeler 1944-50 edited by Rebecca Swift

• Grandmother’s Footsteps · 9 April 1992

  • Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

• Children’s Children · 7 November 1991

  • Grandmothers talking to Nell Dunn

• Fried Nappy · 12 September 1991

  • The Van by Roddy Doyle

• 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

• Luck Dispensers · 11 July 1991

  • The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Megawoman · 13 October 1988

  • Olive Schreiner: Letters. Vol.1:1871-1899 edited by Richard Rive

• Big Books · 15 September 1988

  • William Morris: An Approach to the Poetry by J.M.S. Tompkins

• Dame Cissie · 12 November 1987

  • Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning
  • Family Memories by Rebecca West and Faith Evans

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• The Real Johnny Hall · 3 October 1985

  • Our Three Selves: A Life of Radclyffe Hall by Michael Baker

• 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

• 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

• The Prescription · 2 December 1982

• Sonata for Second Fiddle · 7 October 1982

  • A Half of Two Lives: A Personal Memoir by Alison Waley

• Lotti’s Leap · 1 July 1982

  • Collected Poems and Prose by Charlotte Mew, edited by Val Warner

• 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

• Jerusalem · 3 December 1981

  • Me Again: Uncollected Writings of Stevie Smith edited by Jack Barbera and William McBrien

• 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

• A Secret Richness · 20 November 1980

  • A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym

• Gringo · 21 August 1980

  • The Colonist by Michael Schmidt

• Following the plot · 21 February 1980

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