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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 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.