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Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 - 28
April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and
biographer.[...]She was the daughter of Punch editor Edmund Knox and the niece
of theologian and crime writer Ronald Knox, cryptographer Dilly Knox and Bible
scholar Wilfred Knox.[...] She launched her literary career in 1975, at the age
of 58, when she published a biography of pre-Raphaelite artist Edward
Burne-Jones (1833-1898). "The Bookshop"
(1978), which was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize, concerned a
struggling bookstore in the fictional East Anglian town of Hardborough; set in
1959, the novel includes the shop's decision to stock Lolita as a
pivotal event. Fitzgerald won the Booker Prize with 1979's "Offshore"
[...] The Beginning of Spring (1988) takes place in Moscow in 1913,
examining the world just before the Russian Revolution through the family and
work troubles of a British small businessman who was born and raised in
Russia.
PS to: " he
picked up one or two letters from the violated upper-case, and from habit
let them fall into what could have been their right places[...] Tomorrow I shall
start downstairs with the monotype. Onto the folded apron he put his composing
stick, his setting-rule, his shears, the sponge, and
the bodkin in its cork for removing wrong letters, and with two
movements of his hands made them into a compact parcel [...] I shall throw them
in the river." (CF.Penelope Fiztgerald,
"The Beginning of Spring",pg 40-122,Flamingo,
1989)