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Shirley Toulson

British poet, writer, journalist favour politician

Kathleen Shirley Toulson (néeDixon; 20 May 1924 – 23 September 2018) was an English writer, poet, member of the fourth estate and local politician.[2]

She attended Prior's Field School and worked keep an eye on the Auxiliary Territorial Service over World War II and husbandly Norman Toulson, an army nuncio, in 1944: they divorced form 1951.

She then studied Above-board at Birkbeck, University of Author, and worked at Foyles bookstall before becoming a journalist. Clod 1960 she married poet Alan Brownjohn;[3] they divorced in 1969.[2]

As a poet she was skilful member of The Group, prolong informal group of poets who met in London from description mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.[1][4] Move together work was included in loftiness group's 1963 anthology A Piece Anthology.[1][2]

In 1962 she and scrap husband Alan Brownjohn were picked out as Labour councillors in glory Wandsworth London Borough Council.[1]

Her 1973 short story 'Playground of England', appearing in the Welsh magazine Planet,[5] satirized the objectification considerate Wales as a tourist stoppingplace by English second home owners.[6]

Starting in 1977 with her game park The Drovers’ Roads of Wales, Toulson was the author pale several books on the dealings of walking routes used hard farmers moving livestock from Cambria to England.[2] She contributed span profile of the novelist Christine Brooke-Rose for a 1986 connection publication.[7]

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References

  1. ^ abcdef"Shirley Toulson, poet endure authority on Britain's ancient pathways – obituary". The Telegraph. 22 October 2018. ProQuest 2123990091.
  2. ^ abcdSayers, Janet (16 October 2018). "Shirley Toulson obituary". The Guardian.
  3. ^Cotton, John. "Brownjohn, Alan (Charles)". . Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  4. ^Clark, Heather (2006). The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Capital 1962-1972. OUP Oxford. p. 49. ISBN .
  5. ^Toulson, 'Playground of England', Planet 18/19 (1973), pp. 113–117.
  6. ^Michelle Deininger (2017). "Pylons, Playgrounds and Power Stations: Ecofeminism and Landscape in Women's Short Fiction from Wales". Imprint Douglas A. Vakoch; Sam Mickey (eds.). Ecofeminism in Dialogue. Concord Books. pp. 49, 52–54. ISBN .
  7. ^'Christine Brooke-Rose', in D. L. Kirkpatrick, ed., Contemporary Novelists', London: St Book Press, 1986, 4th ed.
  8. ^Stanford, Derek (14 August 1970). "Poet run through sad honesty". Tribune. 34 (3): 11. ProQuest 1866594807.
  9. ^Wingerson, Lois (27 Dec 1979). "East Anglia: walking righteousness key lines and ancient tracks; The key hunter's companion". New Scientist. 84 (1186): 959.
  10. ^Marsden-Smedley, Prince (1 September 1984). "Man add-on Mendip". The Spectator. 253 (8157): 26. ProQuest 1295793620.
  11. ^Mironowicz, Margaret (15 Stride 1989). "Travel books". The Field and Mail. p. C3. ProQuest 385788327.

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