Penelope Fitzgerald Quote

When they married he wouldn’t be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn’t have him, he didn’t see that he would be able to go on at all.

Penelope Fitzgerald

When they married he wouldn’t be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn’t have him, he didn’t see that he would be able to go on at all.

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About Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."