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Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) has been acclaimed as one of the finest British novelists of the late twentieth century. Four of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and one of them, Offshore (1979), won; her final work of historical fiction, The Blue Flower (1995), won the US National Book Critics' Circle Award. Fitzgerald's works are distinguished by their acute wit, deft handling of emotional tone and an unsentimental yet deeply felt commitment to portraying the lives of those men, women and children 'who seem to have been born defeated'. Admirers have long recognised the brilliance of Fitzgerald's writing, yet the deceptive simplicity of her style invariably leads readers to ask, 'How is it done?' This book seeks to answer that question, providing the first sustained exposition of Penelope Fitzgerald's compositional method, working both inwards from the surface of her writing and outwards from the archival evidence of Fitzgerald's own drafts and working papers.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Biographical Outline xi
Abbreviations and References xiii
Introduction 1
1 Critical Writing 9
2 Biographies 21
Edward Burne-Jones 22
The Knox Brothers 26
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends 32
3 Early Novels 36
The Golden Child 37
The Bookshop 42
Offshore 48
Human Voices 54
At Freddie's 60
4 Late Novels 67
Innocence 69
The Beginning of Spring 78
The Gate of Angels 87
The Blue Flower 93
5 Short Stories, Poems, Letters 101
6 Reputation and Influence 113
Appendix: Uncollected and Unattributed Poems 118
Notes 120
Select Bibliography 132
Index 143
