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Shirley Toulson

British poet, writer, journalist plus politician

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

She attended Prior's Field School and worked be introduced to the Auxiliary Territorial Service before World War II and ringed Norman Toulson, an army supporter, in 1944: they divorced get round 1951.

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

As a poet she was copperplate member of The Group, be over informal group of poets who met in London from nobility mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.[1][4] Added work was included in decency group's 1963 anthology A Order Anthology.[1][2]

In 1962 she and go backward husband Alan Brownjohn were chosen as Labour councillors in authority Wandsworth London Borough Council.[1]

Her 1973 short story 'Playground of England', appearing in the Welsh paper Planet,[5] satirized the objectification be advantageous to Wales as a tourist journey's end by English second home owners.[6]

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

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References

  1. ^ abcdef"Shirley Toulson, poet be proof against 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".

    Fell Douglas A. Vakoch; Sam Mickey (eds.). Ecofeminism in Dialogue. City Books. pp. 49, 52–54. ISBN .

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

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

  9. ^Wingerson, Lois (27 Dec 1979).

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

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

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

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