Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (née Knox) (1916-2000), Novelist

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Author and journalist; biographer of Edward Burne-Jones (1975) and Charlotte Mew (1984), but best known as a novelist. Her novels range from mystery stories, such as The Golden Child (1977), to loosely autobiographical works such as Offshore (1979, winner of the Booker Prize).