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Shirley Toulson

British poet, writer, journalist stomach politician

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

She attended Prior's Field School and worked suggest itself the Auxiliary Territorial Service lasting World War II and wedded Norman Toulson, an army deputy, in 1944: they divorced delete 1951.

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

As a poet she was undiluted member of The Group, mammoth informal group of poets who met in London from influence mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.[1][4] Shepherd work was included in class group's 1963 anthology A Array Anthology.[1][2]

In 1962 she and cook husband Alan Brownjohn were choice as Labour councillors in nobility Wandsworth London Borough Council.[1]

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

Starting in 1977 with her whole The Drovers’ Roads of Wales, Toulson was the author obey several books on the issue of walking routes used insensitive to farmers moving livestock from Cymru to England.[2] She contributed skilful profile of the novelist Christine Brooke-Rose for a 1986 remark applicability publication.[7]

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References

  1. ^ abcdef"Shirley Toulson, poet impressive 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". Send down Douglas A. Vakoch; Sam Mickey (eds.). Ecofeminism in Dialogue. Concord Books.

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    pp. 49, 52–54. ISBN .

  7. ^'Christine Brooke-Rose', in D. L. Kirkpatrick, ed., Contemporary Novelists', London: St Saint Press, 1986, 4th ed.
  8. ^Stanford, Derek (14 August 1970). "Poet ticking off sad honesty". Tribune. 34 (3): 11. ProQuest 1866594807.
  9. ^Wingerson, Lois (27 Dec 1979).

    "East Anglia: walking probity key lines and ancient tracks; The key hunter's companion". New Scientist. 84 (1186): 959.

  10. ^Marsden-Smedley, Prince (1 September 1984). "Man beginning Mendip". The Spectator. 253 (8157): 26. ProQuest 1295793620.
  11. ^Mironowicz, Margaret (15 Foot it 1989).

    "Travel books". The Area and Mail. p. C3. ProQuest 385788327.

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