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Shirley Toulson – A Bio Sketch

Shirley Toulson was born on 20th May 1924 in Henley-on-Thames, England as the daughter of Douglas Horsfall Dixon and Marjorie Brown. She had a huge passion on writing and was greatly influenced y her father who was a writer too. She secured a B.A on Literature from Brockenhurst College in London in the year 1953. Shortly, she took writing as career but also served as the editor for many magazines in meantime. She married Alan Brownjohn on 6th February 1960. They had three children – Janet Sayers, Ian Toulson and Steven brownjohn. ut after nine years they divorced on March 1969. Celtic Christianity influenced her greatly that most of her major works like “Celtic Alternative” in 1987 and “Celtic Year” in 1993 were on that topic. But these works indeed made her more famous.

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A photograph descries 3 stages. In the first scen, the photograph shows the poet’s mother standing at

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Shirley Toulson

English Writer, Poet, journalist and local politician

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KathleenShirley Toulson was born on 20th May 1924. She had a huge passion on writing and was greatly influenced by her father who was a writer too. Poetry had been a favorite occuption since childhood – her first, exuberant, poem was written at the age of eight.

Toulson attended Prior’s Field School and worked with the Auxillary Territorial Service during World War II. She married Norman Toulson, an army lieutenant, in 1944; they divorced in 1951. She secured a B.A on Literature from Brockenhurst College in London in the year 1953. Shortly, she took writing as career but also served as the editor for many magazines in meantime.

As a poet she was a member of The Group, an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Her work was included in the group’s 1963 anthology A Group Anthology.

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3. Shirley Toulson was born in 20. 1924 in England. she was writer, editor of magazine. she came under the influence of Celtic Christianity. Shirley Toulson has been writing books on the social history of the countryside since 1974. She is a leading authority on ancient tracks and drove roads and is the author of 'The Drovers' vägar of Wales' and

5. The poet remembers her mother who died about twelve year ago. The poet recalls how her mother used to look at a photograph and remember her own childhood. The photograph was taken when her mother had gone for a sea holidays with her cousins and her uncle. Looking at her

6. The cardboard shows me how it was When the two girl cousins went paddling, Each one holding one of my mother’s hands, As she the big girl – some twelve year or so.

7. All three stood still to smile through their hair At the uncle with the camera. A sweet face, My mother’s, that was before I was born.

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