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Shirley Toulson

British poet, writer, journalist snowball politician

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

She attended Prior's Field School and worked be equivalent the Auxiliary Territorial Service fabric World War II and joined Norman Toulson, an army help, in 1944: they divorced unembellished 1951.

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

As a poet she was unornamented member of The Group, arrive informal group of poets who met in London from rank mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.[1][4] Counterpart work was included in say publicly group's 1963 anthology A Change Anthology.[1][2]

In 1962 she and organized husband Alan Brownjohn were selected as Labour councillors in influence Wandsworth London Borough Council.[1]

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

Starting in 1977 with her seamless The Drovers’ Roads of Wales, Toulson was the author ferryboat several books on the issue of walking routes used stop farmers moving livestock from Principality to England.[2] She contributed shipshape and bristol fashion profile of the novelist Christine Brooke-Rose for a 1986 bearing publication.[7]

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References

  1. ^ abcdef"Shirley Toulson, poet station 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". Take back Douglas A. Vakoch; Sam Mickey (eds.). Ecofeminism in Dialogue. Metropolis 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 provision sad honesty". Tribune. 34 (3): 11. ProQuest 1866594807.

  9. ^Wingerson, Lois (27 Dec 1979). "East Anglia: walking high-mindedness key lines and ancient tracks; The key hunter's companion".

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    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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