"How did she do it?", Julian Barnes, The Guardian, July 26, 2008"

“Penelope Fitzgerald: Dedicated to Her Life and Work”

“He struggled to keep his temper. It struck him that both Marta and Chiara took advantage of him by attacking him with their ignorance, or call it innocence. A serious thinking adult had no defence against innocence because he was obliged to respect it, whereas the innocent scarcely knows what respect is, or seriousness either.”

“The Unknown Penelope Fitzgerald", Edmund Gordon,TLS, June 30, 2010”

“Penelope Fitzgerald", by Harriet Harvey-Wood, The Guardian, May 3, 2000.”

“Fitzgerald, Penelope", Britannica Student Encyclopedia .”

“There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.”