Penelope Fitzgerald

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CRITICISM

Annan, Gabriele. “Letting Go.” New York Review of Books 46, No. 10 (10 June 1999): 28.

Praises Fitzgerald's comic voice in her Human Voices.

Dee, Jonathon. “The Reanimators.” Harper's 298, No. 1789 (June 1999): 76.

Lauds Fitzgerald's light touch in The Blue Flower.

Duguid, Lindsay. “In Faery Lands Forlorn.” Times Literary Supplement, No. 4988 (6 November 1998): 10.

Discusses a resurgence of interest in the work of Edward Burne-Jones, including Penelope Fitzgerald's biography of the artist.

King, Nina. “The Heart Has Its Reasons.” Washington Post Book World 22, No. 8 (23 February 1992): 1.

King praises Fitzgerald for her ability to infuse so many ideas in such a brief novel while maintaining the novel's leisurely pace in The Gate of Angels.

Leivick, Laura. “Love and the Poet.” Wall Street Journal 99, No. 68 (8 April 1997): A20.

Discusses Fitzgerald's recreation of eighteenth-century Germany and the birth of the Romantic movement in The Blue Flower.

Additional coverage of Fitzgerald's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 85-88; Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 10; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 56; Contemporary Novelists; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 14 and 194; Literature Resource Center; and Major 20th-Century Writers, Vol. 2.

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