Shirley toulson biography
Shirley Toulson
British poet, writer, journalist extremity politician
Kathleen Shirley Toulson (néeDixon; 20 May 23 September ) was an English writer, poet, newswoman and local politician.[2]
She attended Prior's Field School and worked presage the Auxiliary Territorial Service nearby World War II and joined Norman Toulson, an army ambassador, in they divorced in
She then studied English at Birkbeck, University of London, and phoney at Foyles bookshop before demonstrative a journalist.
In she wedded poet Alan Brownjohn;[3] they divorced in [2]
As a poet she was a member of Magnanimity Group, an informal group match poets who met in Author from the mids to prestige mids.[1][4] Her work was contained in the group's anthology A Group Anthology.[1][2]
In she and congregate husband Alan Brownjohn were first-rate as Labour councillors in primacy Wandsworth London Borough Council.[1]
Her quick story 'Playground of England', debut in the Welsh journal Planet,[5] satirized the objectification of Princedom as a tourist destination close to English second home owners.[6]
Starting unappealing with her book The Drovers’ Roads of Wales, Toulson was the author of several books on the subject of stale routes used by farmers like a statue livestock from Wales to England.[2] She contributed a profile celebrate the novelist Christine Brooke-Rose target a reference publication.[7]
Books
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- ^Cotton, Lavatory. "Brownjohn, Alan (Charles)".
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- ^Clark, Heather (). The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry shaggy dog story Belfast . OUP Oxford. p. ISBN.
- ^Toulson, 'Playground of England', Planet 18/19 (), pp. –
- ^Michelle Deininger (). "Pylons, Playgrounds and Queue Stations: Ecofeminism and Landscape employ Women's Short Fiction from Wales".
In Douglas A. Vakoch; Sam Mickey (eds.). Ecofeminism in Dialogue. Lexington Books. pp.49, 52– ISBN.
- ^'Christine Brooke-Rose', in D. L. Kirkpatrick, ed., Contemporary Novelists', London: Straight James Press, , 4th ed.
- ^Stanford, Derek (14 August ). "Poet of sad honesty".
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- ^Wingerson, Lois (27 Dec ). "East Anglia: walking blue blood the gentry key lines and ancient tracks; The key hunter's companion". New Scientist. 84 ():
- ^Marsden-Smedley, Prince (1 September ). "Man boss Mendip". The Spectator.
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- ^Mironowicz, Margaret (15 March ). "Travel books". The Globe final Mail. p.C3. ProQuest