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Shirley toulson poet biography worksheets

          Background of the poet shirley toulson.

          A photograph class 11 questions and answers

        1. When was the photograph taken
        2. Background of the poet shirley toulson
        3. What does the word 'cardboard' denote in the poem why has this word been used
        4. The poem 'A Photograph' is written by Shirley Toulson.

          5. Shirley Toulson

          British poet, writer, journalist and politician

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

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

          She then studied English at Birkbeck, University of London, and worked at Foyles bookshop before 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, an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s.[1][4] Her work was included in the group's 1963 anthology A Group Anthology.[1][2]

          In 1962 she and her husband Alan Brownjohn were elected as Labour councillors in the Wandsworth London Borough Council.