Woolmer, Howard J.: The Poetry Bookshop: A Bibliography, 170
Wordsworth, Tom, 19
Wordsworth, William, 19—20
Wright, Adrian: Foreign Country: The Life of L.P. Hartley, 326—9
Wyatville, Sir Jeffry, 448
Wycombe Abbey (school), 492
Wylie, I.A.R.: Life with George, 256
Wyndham, Francis, 234, 318
Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet (‘Lolly’), 216—18
Yeats, George (née Hyde-Lees; WBY’s wife), 218
Yeats, Jack, 216
Yeats, John Butler: and Maud Gonne, 220; Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others, 1869—1922 (ed. Joseph Hone), 216—19
Yeats, Susan Mary (‘Lily’), 216—17
Yeats, Susan (née Pollexfen), 216
Yeats, William Butler: correspondence with Maud Gonne, 219—25; letters from father, 216—17; poetry, 189; readings at Poetry Bookshop, 162; on walking naked, 347; on women in politics, 118; Reveries over Childhood and Youth, 218
Yellow Book: Ada Leverson writes for, 234, 236; publishes Charlotte Mew story, 176
Yevtushenko, Yevgeni, 359
Yonge, Charlotte Mary: Heir of Redclyffe, 111—12, 114
Yugoslavia: Rebecca West writes on, 317
Zambaco, Mary, 108—9, 135—6, 145
About the author
Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British literature. She was the author of a collection of short stories and nine novels, three of which—The Bookshop, Innocence and The Gate of Angels—were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She won the prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as ‘Book of the Year’. It won America’s National Book Critics Circle Award.
A superb biographer and critic, Penelope Fitzgerald was also the author of lives of the artist Edward Burne-Jones and the poet Charlotte Mew, and of The Knox Brothers, a study of her remarkable father Edmund Knox, editor of Punch, and his equally remarkable brothers.
She died in 2000.
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From the reviews of A House of Air:
‘A rich and wonderful book’
HILARY MANTEL, New Statesman
‘Wittily evocative and vividly idiosyncratic…These pages are full of people, summoned up and summed up with the terse exactitude that was Fitzgerald’s great gift’
LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT, Sunday Times
‘Rewarding and illuminating…These pieces, largely about literature, are full of exact and surprising evocations, and concise, responsible judgments bearing the weight of a great deal of thought and knowledge. One could quite happily do nothing but quote a great number of these brilliant sentences to convey how original and thoughtful Fitzgerald always was…One can’t help feeling that the world should have taken notice earlier of so extraordinary and magical a mind’
PHILIP HENSHER, Spectator
‘This volume of selected writings demonstrates Fitzgerald’s mature genius as a discriminating reader and critic. These collected essays, reviews and pieces of journalism compose a magical lucky dip: every page offers insights to savour, calm, humorous prose to relish’
MICHÈLE ROBERTS, Independent on Sunday
‘Among the many pleasures of this collection are the glimpses of the personal, which flash like bright minnows through the clear waters of her prose…Captivating’
SALLEY VICKERS, The Times
By the same author
Edward Burne-Jones
The Knox Brothers
The Golden Child
The Bookshop
Offshore
Human Voices
At Freddie’s
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends
Innocence
The Beginning of Spring
The Gate of Angels
The Blue Flower
The Means of Escape
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