She attended boarding school at Wycombe Abbey in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and took first-class honours at Somerville College, Oxford. Although she did not begin writing until she was in her late 50s, she published nine novels and three biographies and was honoured with some of literature’s top awards.įitzgerald’s father, Edmund Knox, was the editor of Punch her uncle Ronald translated the Bible and wrote detective stories. Penelope Fitzgerald, née Penelope Mary Knox, (born December 17, 1916, Lincoln, England-died April 28, 2000, London), 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. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald