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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. [1] In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [2] The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". [3]
Penelope Fitzgerald (born December 17, 1916, Lincoln, England—died April 28, 2000, London) was an English novelist and biographer noted for her economical, yet evocative, witty, and intricate works often concerned with the efforts of her characters to cope with their unfortunate life circumstances. Although she did not begin writing until she ...
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The Blue Flower is the final novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald, published in 1995. It is a fictional treatment of the early life and troubled relationships of Friedrich von Hardenberg who, under the pseudonym Novalis, became a foundational figure of German Romanticism.
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In London in January 1973 the Museum (unnamed in the novel) is exhibiting for the first time anywhere the golden Garamantiantreasures, on loan from the Garamantian government, that had been discovered years earlier by the eminent archaeologist Sir William Simpkin. Sir William, wealthy and now elderly, is retained by the Museum as a figurehead, larg...
Sir William Simpkin: elderly archaeologist, discoverer of the Golden ChildSir John Allison: Museum DirectorMarcus Hawthorne-Mannering: Keeper of Funerary ArtWaring Smith: Junior Exhibition OfficerFitzgerald wrote the novel to amuse her husband, who was terminally ill with bowel cancer. She also wanted to deal with the annoyance she had felt when visiting The Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum in 1972 (having speculated that everything in it was a forgery), and also to write about someone who had been unpleasant to her...
H. R. F. Keating, reviewing the book as a crime novel for The Times, referred to the novel’s good joking (if occasionally in-joking), its muted social criticism, and its good writing if somewhat consciously so. Writing in the Library Journal, Henri C. Veit called the novel "A muddle of violence and intrigue that I wouldn't have missed for the world...
Lee, Hermione (2013). Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 9780701184957.Wolfe, Peter (2004). "The Great Museum Sideshow". Understanding Penelope Fitzgerald. University of South Carolina Press.- Penelope Fitzgerald
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Jun 26, 2023 · Penelope Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the greatest British novelists: in 2008, The Times listed her as one of “the 50 greatest British writers since 1945,” and in 2012, The Observer placed The Blue Flower among the “ten best historical novels.”
Apr 28, 2000 · Penelope Fitzgerald was an English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower , as one of "the ten best historical novels".
Penelope Fitzgerald was born in Lincoln on 17 December 1916 and was educated at Somerville College, Oxford. Her father, Edmund Knox, was editor of Punch magazine during the 1930s, and her Uncle, Dillwyn Knox, worked on breaking the Enigma code at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
