Isis readers knew that Penelope herself had shone in the bee, and that her spelling of “daguerreotype” had been “loudly applauded by both teams” but she wasn’t going to boast about that. This was the wry self-effacement of a star student. She said she’d taken part in “the first Spelling Bee against America,” in which Oxford had lost by four points to a team from Radcliffe and Harvard, and that she had spoken in the Union “with the result that there were only two votes for my side of the motion.” She’d come to Oxford expecting poets and orgies, and had seen few of the one and none of the other. She wrote a few paragraphs about her university career, dwelling solely on what had gone wrong. I think you can write at any time of your life.Just before Penelope Knox went down from Oxford with a congratulatory First in 1938, she was named a “Woman of the Year” in Isis, the student paper. She told the New York Times Magazine, "In all that time, I could have written books and I didn’t.
for a publishing debut made late in life" ( New York Times Book Review). Though Fitzgerald embarked on her literary career when she was in her 60's, her career was praised as "the best argument. In 1979, her novel Offshore won Britain's Booker Prize, and in 1998 she won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for The Blue Flower. Over 300,000 copies of her novels are in print, and profiles of her life appeared in both The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. PENELOPE FITZGERALD wrote many books small in size but enormous in popular and critical acclaim over the past two decades. an original masterpiece.”- Financial Times "An astonishing book.Fitzgerald's greatest triumph."- New York Times Book Review Their brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard? How can this be? Their rationality of love, the transfiguration of the commonplace, the clarity of purpose that comes with knowing one's own fate- these are the themes of this beguiling novel, themes treated with a mix of wit, grace, and mischievous humor. It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his "heart's heart," his "spirit's guide"-a plain, simple child named Sophievon Kühn. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the romantic poet Novalis. The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe among the small towns and great universities of 18th-century Germany. Booker Prize–winning novelist Fitzgerald's crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love for the simple Sophie. A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction.
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