Summary
So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald edited by Terence Dooley (4th Estate, [pounds]25)
IN 1974, surrounded by the "foul A-level scripts" that provided Penelope Fitzgerald with essential income, she said: "I have a sensation of having wasted my life, but it's too late to worry about this." She was in her mid-fifties and had recently finished her first book, a biography of Edward Burne-Jones. But it was not "too late" at all: biographies of Charlotte Mew and the Knox Brothers lay ahead, and nine novels, including the Bookerwinning Offshore, The Blue Flower and The Gate of Angels.See the full content of this document
Extract
'Genius' Among the Green Shield Stamps
But Fitzgerald's letters were always those of a very good writer, long before she thought of becoming a professional.
Scholarly and imaginative, like her disti...See the full content of this document
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