Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald (nee Knox ) ( born December 17, 1916 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; † 28 April 2000, London) was an English writer.

Biography

Penelope Knox came from a family of the English educated middle class. Her father Edmund George Knox was from 1932 to 1949 editor of the magazine Punch. Your uncle was the theologian and crime writer Ronald Knox, the cryptologist Dillwyn " Dilly " Knox and the theologian and Bible researcher Wilfred Knox.

After school, she studied at Oxford University and was subsequently during the Second World War, employee of the BBC. In 1941 she married the Irish soldiers Desmond Fitzgerald with whom she had three children. In the 1960s she worked as a lecturer at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, as a teacher at a London school and member of a bookshop in Southwold, Suffolk.

Reception

Fitzgerald's literary activity began in 1975 with nearly sixty years with a biography of the British painter and leading representative of the Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne -Jones. In 1977, she wrote a biography of her father and uncle under the title The Knox Brothers.

In 1995 she published her best-known novel, The Blue Flower ( The Blue Flower), in which she describes the love relationship between the German writers of the early Romantic period, philosophers and mining engineer Friedrich von Hardenberg to Sophie von Kühn. In 1997 she became the first non- American writer for The Blue Flower the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Edward Burne -Jones. A Biography. Sutton Publ, Stroud 1997 ISBN 0-7509-1562-5 (EA London 1975).
  • The Knox Brothers. Flamingo Books, London 2002, ISBN 0-00-711830-9 (EA London 1977).
  • Charlotte Mew and Her Friends. With a Selection of Her Poems. Collins, London 1984, ISBN 0-00-217008-6.
  • The Means of escape. Stories. Chivers Press, Bath 2001, ISBN 0-7862-3342-7.
  • A house of air. Selected writings. Harper Perennial, London 2005, ISBN 0-00-713643-9.
  • Theafterlife. Essays and criticism. Counterpoint Publ, New York 2003, ISBN 1-58243-198-1.
  • The Golden Child. Harper Perennial, London 2004, ISBN 0-00-654625-0 (EA London 1977)
  • The Bookshop. Everyman Publ, London 2001, ISBN 1-85715-247-6 (EA London 1978) German translation: The bookshop. Island, Frankfurt / M. 2000, ISBN 3-458-17007-3 (translated by Christa Krüger)
  • German translation: the beginning of spring. Island, Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 3-458-16194-5 (translated by Christa Krüger)
  • German translation: The Engelstor. Island, Frankfurt / M. In 1994. ISBN 3-458-16635-1 (translated by Christa Krüger)
  • German translation: The Blue Flower. Publisher of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-545-9 (EA Frankfurt / M. 1994)
  • Rose Macaulay: The world of Wilderness. Virago Press, London 1983.
  • Margaret Oliphant: Miss Marjoribanks. Chronicles of Carlingford. Virago Press, London, 1988, ISBN 0-86068-770-8.
  • Howard Woolmer: The poetry bookshop. From 1912 to 1935. Brotherson Books, Revere, 1988, ISBN 0-906795-66-4.
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