Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (née Knox)

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Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (née Knox)

by Tara Heinemann
bromide fibre print, 1986
9 in. x 6 in. (229 mm x 152 mm)
Purchased, 1988
Photographs Collection
NPG x30986

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  • Tara Heinemann (1954-), Photographer. Artist or producer of 43 portraits.

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Current affairs

Hampton Court Palace is devastated by fire. Much of the third floor and the roof of the building were destroyed, although, thanks to the courage of the fire fighters, only one painting and one piece of furniture were ruined.
Prince Andrew, Duke of York, marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

Art and science

Poems on the Underground, the brainchild of American writer Judith Chernaik, is launched by London Underground. A rolling programme of poems is displayed in tube train carriages, bringing contemporary and classic poetry to commuters.
The Independent Newspaper is first published.
Artists, Gilbert and George win the Turner Prize.

International

An explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station leads to nuclear meltdown in the reactor and causes massive nuclear contamination over Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, western Europe, the UK and Ireland, and even North America. The 2005 Chenobyl Forum attributed 56 direct deaths to the disaster and estimated that 9,000 people may die from some form of cancer as a result of exposure to radiation.

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John Fleischman

19 February 2019, 10:44

Letter from Penelope Fitzgerald to stepmother Mary Shepard Knox dated “Sat: morning [1986] in “So I Have Thought of You” collected letters PF

“Another photographer yesterday, very slender and wonderful looking, and called Tara Heinemann — clearly better if she (ital.) was photographed— lives in a 15th century stone-walled thatched cottage near Banbury with her husband— and that’s the last of them I do hope, for the American publishers who are due to bring out “Innocence” next spring, though I’m afraid it’s not quite the sort of thing they read in America.”