...huh

[tempestsarekind]

Today I learned, quite by chance, that Dilly Knox (classics scholar and cryptographer who worked on the Enigma code) was Penelope Fitzgerald's uncle. Small world.

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[nightspore]

Wow -- I loved her obit in the Times. I am pretty sure they didn't mention that.

[tempestsarekind]

Apparently one of her earlier books was a family biography? I was reading an overview of her output and stumbled across this fact.