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Little was known of FitzGerald's character until W. Aldis Wright published his three-volume Letters and Literary Remains in 1889 and the Letters to Fanny Kemble in 1895. These letters reveal FitzGerald as a witty and sympathetic letter writer. [9] George Gissing found them interesting enough to read the three-volume collection twice, in 1890 ...
Roy Fisher (1930–2017), English poet and jazz pianist; Edward Fitzgerald (1809–1883), English poet and translator of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985), US poet, critic and translator; Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), Scottish child poet and diarist; Giles Fletcher the Elder (c. 1548–1611), English poet, diplomat and MP
FitzGerald was born in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, a third-generation Australian of Irish extraction, and studied science at the University of Sydney.He left before graduating, however, and followed in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather Robert D. FitzGerald by taking up a post as a surveyor.
Jack Bedson (born 1950) poet and children's writer; Lisa Bellear (1961–2006) Judith Beveridge (born 1956) Dora Birtles (1903–1992) Leigh Blackmore (born 1959) Peter Bladen (born 1922–2001) John Blight (1913–1995) Barcroft Boake (1866–1892) Merlinda Bobis (born 1959) Ken Bolton (born 1949) Henry Ernest Boote (1865–1949) trade union ...
Caroline Fitzgerald (September 22, 1865 – December 25, 1911) was an American poet and litteratrice who spent most of her adult life in Europe, particularly Italy. Although not fabulously rich, she was wealthy enough to move to and fro between The Gilded Age in America and La Belle Époque in Europe.
A number of letters dated between 1871 and 1892 from FitzGerald to the German/Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller about Australian plants and their identification with references to Herbarium specimens as well as a single letter from G.H. Druce to FitzGerald are held at the National Herbarium of Victoria, Melbourne. [2]
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. [1] In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". [2] The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". [3]
[4] Fitzgerald is widely known as one of the most poetic translators into the English language. He also served as literary executor to Flannery O'Connor, who was a boarder at his home in Redding, Connecticut, from 1949 to 1951. Fitzgerald's wife at the time, Sally Fitzgerald, compiled O'Connor's essays and letters after O'Connor's death.