Shuttle, Penelope
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1947- ) UK poet and author, married to Peter Redgrove (whom see for their sf collaborations) until his death in 2003. Jesusa (1971 chap) is an expressionist presentation of Sex seen as metamorphic, mythopoeic. Her only full-length solo fiction of genre interest, The Mirror of the Giant: A Ghost Story (1980), combines Feminist self-analysis with elements of the traditional ghost story. [JC]
Penelope Diane Shuttle
born Staines, Middlesex: 12 May 1947
works
- Jesusa (Falmouth, Cornwall: Granite Press, 1971) [novella: chap: pb/Jeff Harris]
- The Terrors of Dr Treviles: A Romance (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974) with Peter Redgrove [hb/Andrew Young]
- The Glass Cottage: A Nautical Romance (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976) with Peter Redgrove [hb/]
- The Mirror of the Giant: A Ghost Story (London: Marion Boyars, 1980) [hb/John Collings]
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