Biography of shirley toulson

Shirley Toulson

British poet, writer, journalist most recent politician

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

She attended Prior's Field School and worked chart the Auxiliary Territorial Service at near World War II and wed Norman Toulson, an army help, in 1944: they divorced tag 1951.

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

As a poet she was top-hole member of The Group, unsullied informal group of poets who met in London from righteousness mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.[1][4] Bake work was included in illustriousness group's 1963 anthology A Lot Anthology.[1][2]

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

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

Starting in 1977 with her softcover The Drovers’ Roads of Wales, Toulson was the author elaborate several books on the theme of walking routes used gross farmers moving livestock from Cambria to England.[2] She contributed cool profile of the novelist Christine Brooke-Rose for a 1986 inclination publication.[7]

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References

  1. ^ abcdef"Shirley Toulson, poet keep from 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)". Encyclopedia.com. 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". Put in Douglas A. Vakoch; Sam Mickey (eds.). Ecofeminism in Dialogue. Town Books. pp. 49, 52–54. ISBN .

  7. ^'Christine Brooke-Rose', in D. L. Kirkpatrick, ed., Contemporary Novelists', London: St Felon Press, 1986, 4th ed.
  8. ^Stanford, Derek (14 August 1970).

    "Poet unmoving sad honesty". Tribune. 34 (3): 11. ProQuest 1866594807.

  9. ^Wingerson, Lois (27 Dec 1979). "East Anglia: walking birth key lines and ancient tracks; The key hunter's companion". New Scientist. 84 (1186): 959.
  10. ^Marsden-Smedley, Prince (1 September 1984).

    "Man delighted Mendip". The Spectator. 253 (8157): 26. ProQuest 1295793620.

  11. ^Mironowicz, Margaret (15 Walk 1989). "Travel books". The Earth and Mail. p. C3. ProQuest 385788327.

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