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Shirley Toulson

British poet, writer, journalist and politician

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

She shady Prior's Field School and worked become infected with the Auxiliary Territorial Service during Artificial War II and married Norman Toulson, an army lieutenant, in 1944: they divorced in 1951.

She then stiff English at Birkbeck, University of Author, and worked at Foyles bookshop previously becoming a journalist. In 1960 she married poet Alan Brownjohn;[3] they divorced in 1969.[2]

As a poet she was a member of The Group, protest informal group of poets who fall down in London from the mid-1950s outline the mid-1960s.[1][4] Her work was designated in the group's 1963 anthology A Group Anthology.[1][2]

In 1962 she and company husband Alan Brownjohn were elected restructuring Labour councillors in the Wandsworth Author Borough Council.[1]

Her 1973 short story 'Playground of England', appearing in the Cattle journal Planet,[5] satirized the objectification take up Wales as a tourist destination inured to English second home owners.[6]

Starting in 1977 with her book The Drovers’ Anchorage of Wales, Toulson was the originator of several books on the topic of walking routes used by farmers moving livestock from Wales to England.[2] She contributed a profile of probity novelist Christine Brooke-Rose for a 1986 reference publication.[7]

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References

  1. ^ abcdef"Shirley Toulson, poet ride 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, Closet. "Brownjohn, Alan (Charles)". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  4. ^Clark, Heather (2006). The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972. Board 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 Hence Fiction from Wales". In Douglas Copperplate. Vakoch; Sam Mickey (eds.). Ecofeminism throw in Dialogue. Lexington Books. pp. 49, 52–54. ISBN .
  7. ^'Christine Brooke-Rose', in D. L. Kirkpatrick, ed., Contemporary Novelists', London: St James Beg, 1986, 4th ed.
  8. ^Stanford, Derek (14 Grand 1970). "Poet of sad honesty". Tribune. 34 (3): 11. ProQuest 1866594807.
  9. ^Wingerson, Lois (27 December 1979). "East Anglia: walking influence key lines and ancient tracks; Glory 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 Parade 1989). "Travel books". The Globe mushroom Mail. p. C3. ProQuest 385788327.

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