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LETTER FROM PENELOPE FITZGERALD TO FELLOW NOVELIST JOSEPHINE PULLEIN THOMPSON
FITZGERALD
(Penelope Mary, 1916-2000, Booker Prize Winning Novelist, Poet, Essayist and Biographer)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'Penelope' to Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
(1924-2014, Writer best known for her Pony Books) thanking her for her book which she took down to Theale this past weekend & left it with Tina & she almost wept, it brought back her pony-owning days so intensely, (but after all she might have one again - there's a kind of stable at the back of the garden, not belonging to us, but just being used for hens & for fattening calves, & I daresay in time we could get hold of that). If you should have another copy to spare & would sign it for her, she'd love it... It's hard to put in words the connection between the book, the child & the pony, or the imagined pony I suppose in so many cases. I've got the ticket for the PEN outing too & look forward to it. I wonder how much is still there at Knole? - there seemed to be some sort of arrangement by which the Sackville-Wests were allowed to withdraw pictures & items of silver-plated furniture &c, & sell them, so that blanks appeared on the walls & in the rooms, & things had to be hastily re-arranged - but there's always plenty left I suppose. I've never seen the Woolfs house at Rodmell but always wanted to..., 2 sides 4to., 76 Clifton Hill, London, 6th April
Item Date: 1982
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Background
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. Vita Sackville-West was born in her ancestral home of Knole house and lived there until the death of her father in 1928. The house followed the title and went to her uncle. This was a source of life-long bitterness for her. Virginia and Leonard Woolf bought Monk's House in Rodmell in 1920. They kept it until the end of Virginia's life; it became their permanent home after their London home was bombed, and it was where she completed Between the Acts in early 1941, which was followed by her final breakdown and suicide in the nearby River Ouse on 28th March. From the papers of Josephine Pullein-Thompson. She was a leading member of the Pony Club and PEN International. Her mother and two sisters, Christine and Diana also wrote.
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