The Boston Globe, January 7th, 1992
THE GATES OF ANGELS By Penelope Fitzgerald Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 167 pp., $19 Like her previous novel, "The Beginning of Spring," Penelope Fitzgerald's splendid "The Gate of Angels" takes place on the hinge of the Edwardian era and the modernist sensibility. There is a spunky New Woman heroine, there is an insert ghost yarn in the manner of M. R. James; there is the social comedy of the pooh-bah male rituals of a Cambridge college, there is the Cambridge of research labs and scientists investigating matter and energy. Beneath a sparkling surface, the novel reflects the physical and the meta...
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