Fitzgerald embarked on her literary career when she was in her 60's, her career was praised as "the best argument ... for a publishing debut made late in life" (New York Times Book Review). She told the New York Times Magazine, "In all that time, I could have written books and I...
Penelope Fitzgerald, one of the most quietly brilliant novelists of the twentieth century, was a great English writer whose career didn’t begin until she was nearly sixty. Her life was marked by dramatic twists of fate, moving from a bishop’s palace to a sinking houseboat to a last, late...
Penelope Fitzgerald likes to keep some of her characters in the shadows. In fact, we never learn much about the two main female characters, Nellie and Lisa Ivanovna. Nellie is absent for the whole book, so mostly what we get about her is a kind of hearsay. Only about twenty years old...
Although she had been photographed as a child by Diane Arbus, her work with Avedon was Tree’s first professional shoot. Surprisingly, David Bailey would later state in his autobiography Look Again that Avedon’s were the best pictures ever taken of Penelope. “It was very generous of him!”...
Sheila Fitzgerald // Shutterstock Kids R Us - Category: clothing - Year founded: 1983 - Year defunct: 2004 - Lifetime: 21 years In 1983, Kids R Us opened as an offshoot to Toys “R” Us. The company sold children's clothing at discount prices. The company was open for 20 years, wi...
After the debutante season in 1951, I met Nigel Knight Bruce, Rory's father, at a ball. Just turned 18 and a good Catholic girl, I knew nothing of sex. My best friend Rachel FitzGerald tried to explain the rudiments but I didn't believe a word of it. A man of few words, Knight...