TOULSON, Shirley, 1924- : SHADOWS IN AN ORCHARD.

Northwood : Scorpion Press, 1960. First edition. Her first collection - "Fulham in Winter", "Tube
Train" and twenty more poems.
Demy 8vo. 28pp. Original pale blue stapled wrappers, lettered on upper wrap in brown; staples
slightly rusted and wraps spotted; a good copy.

TOULSON, Shirley, 1924- : SHADOWS IN AN ORCHARD.

Northwood : Scorpion Press, 1960. First edition. Her first collection - "Fulham in Winter", "Tube
Train" and twenty more poems.
Demy 8vo. 28pp. Original pale blue stapled wrappers, lettered on upper wrap in brown; staples
slightly rusted and wraps spotted; a good copy.

Shirley Toulson, who lives in Somerset, was drawn into the spell of Celtic Christianity as she
worked on her books dealing with the oldest roads and folklore of Britain and Ireland, and found
herself following the routes taken on their journeys by the saints of the early church. Among her
writings are: THE CELTIC ALTERNATIVE (1987) and THE CELTIC YEAR (1993).

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Personal Information: Family: Born May 20, 1924, in Henley-on-Thames, England; daughter of
Douglas Horsfall Dixon (a writer) and Marjorie Brown; married Alan Brownjohn, February 6,
1960 (divorced March, 1969); children: Janet Sayers, Ian Toulson, Steven Brownjohn. Education:
Birkbeck College, London, B.A., 1953. Addresses: Home: 16 Priest Row Wells, Somerset,
England. Agent: Bruce Hunter, David Higham Associates, 5-8 Lower John St., Golden Sq., London
W1R 4HA, England.

Career: Writer. Features editor of Teacher (journal of National Union of Teachers), 1967-70; editor
of Child Education, 1970-74. Teacher of creative writing for adults.

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

* Shadows in an Orchard (poems), Scorpion Press, 1960.

* Circumcision's Not Such a Bad Thing after All and Other Poems, Keepsake Press, 1970.

* All Right, Auden, I Know You're There: A Quick Thought (poems), Offcut Press, 1970.

* For a Double Time (poems), Sceptre Press, 1970.

* The Fault, Dear Brutus: A Zodiac of Sonnets, Keepsake Press, 1972.

* Education in Britain, M. Evans, 1974.

* Farm Museums and Farm Parks, Shire Publications, 1977.

* (With Fay Godwin) Drovers' Roads of Wales, Wildwood House, 1977.

* (With John Loveday) Bones and Angels (poems), Mid-Day Publications, 1978.

* East Anglia: Walking the Leylines and Ancient Tracks, Wildwood House, 1979.

* The Drovers, Shire Publications, 1980.

* Derbyshire: Exploring the Ancient Tracks and Mysteries of Mercia, Wildwood House, 1980.

* The Winter Solstice, Jill Norman & Hobhouse, 1981.

* The Moors of the Southwest, Hutchinson, Volume 1, 1983, Volume 2, 1984.

* The Mendip Hills: A Threatened Landscape, Gollancz, 1984.

* Celtic Journeys, Scotland and the North of England, Hutchinson, 1985.

* The Celtic Alternative, Century Hutchinson, 1987.

* Walking Round Wales: The Giraldus Journey, Michael Joseph, 1988.

* The Companion Guide to Devon, Harper/Collins, 1991.

* The Celtic Year, Element (Rockport, MA), 1993.

* Somerset, with Bath and Bristol, foreword by Christopher Hibbert, Pimlico (London, England),
1995.

EDITOR

* The Remind-Me Hat and Other Stories (juvenile), M. Evans, 1973.

* Dickens, S. Low, 1977.

* Kipling, S. Low, 1977.

* Milton, S. Low, 1977.

* Shakespeare, S. Low, 1977.

Works in Progress: A further book about the Celtic church in Britain from the third to the eighth
centuries; a county history of Somerset; "I have also worked on a further book on the Welsh
drovers' roads, and a study of the Devon/Somerset Blackdown Hills."

"Sidelights"
Shirley Toulson told CA: "Apart from the social history of the British countryside, my main
interest is in contemporary English and American verse. More recently I have been working on the
history of the early Celtic church and the places associated with it in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and
the south-west peninsula."

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001.

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Personal Information: Family: Born May 20, 1924, in Henley-on-Thames, England; daughter of
Douglas Horsfall Dixon (a writer) and Marjorie Brown; married Alan Brownjohn, February 6,
1960 (divorced March, 1969); children: Janet Sayers, Ian Toulson, Steven Brownjohn. Education:
Birkbeck College, London, B.A., 1953. Addresses: Home: 16 Priest Row Wells, Somerset,
England. Agent: Bruce Hunter, David Higham Associates, 5-8 Lower John St., Golden Sq., London
W1R 4HA, England.

Career: Writer. Features editor of Teacher (journal of National Union of Teachers), 1967-70; editor
of Child Education, 1970-74. Teacher of creative writing for adults.

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