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Edward Burne-Jones Kindle Edition

by Penelope Fitzgerald (Author), Frances Spalding (Introduction) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
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Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

‘I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any light that ever shone – in a land no one can define or remember, only desire’ Edward Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was the prototypical pre-Raphaelite but with a truly individual sensibility. Penelope Fitzgerald’s delightful biography charts his life from humble beginnings in Birmingham as the son of an unsuccessful framer, through a transformative period at Oxford, where he met his close friend and collaborator William Morris, and on to the apprenticeship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti that would shape his artistic vision.

His work harks back to an Arthurian England – an Arcadia that offered solace against the onset of the Industrial Revolution, and on a deeply personal level provided respite from his ever-present melancholia. This is an illuminating portrait of a fascinating figure – artistic genius, doting father, troubled husband – written with all Penelope Fitzgerald’s characteristic sympathy and insight.

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    Fourth Estate
  4. Publication date
    8 May 2014
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‘Wise and ironic, funny and humane, Fitzgerald is a wonderful, wonderful writer.’ David Nicholls

‘Of all the novelists of the last quarter-century, she has the most unarguable claim on greatness. [It has been] a career we, as readers, can only count ourselves lucky to have lived through.’ Philip Hensher, Spectator

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Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most distinctive voices in British literature. The prize-winning author of nine novels, three biographies and one collection of short stories, she died in 2000.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00IR2J49Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate; UK ed. edition (8 May 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2784 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
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Penelope Fitzgerald

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Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize–winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, The Times included her in a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, The Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of "the ten best historical novels".

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Barbara Geltosky
5.0 out of 5 stars Exhaustive portrait of a talented artist
Reviewed in the United States on 2 January 2022
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Penelope fitzgerald gives us an extremely well researched biography of Edward burne jones. From impoverished beginnings to work with William Morris and the pre raphaelites and his own drawings , illuminations , paintings and stained glass , we learn the story of a very unique and talented man. His family life with his wife Georgie was over the years distracted by infatuation with his model and a married woman, but Georgie remained faithful to the end. He had a strange relationship with his son Phil, sending him away to school and later having to bail him out of financial difficulties. But his love for his daughter and grandchildren was obvious. Although extremely famous in his time, his finances had periods of boom and bust. His lifetime work concerned arthurian legends and many of his stained glass windows still exist in English churches.
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A. Williams
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 June 2017
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4.0 out of 5 stars ... up Edward Burne-Jones - but she does give a good deal of accurate information
Reviewed in the United States on 27 August 2015
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Fitzgerald doesn't quite succeed in conjuring up Edward Burne-Jones - but she does give a good deal of accurate information.
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Dr. Liana Cheney
5.0 out of 5 stars repeated edition fine
Reviewed in the United States on 25 September 2019
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