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English poet (1929–2009)

Ursula Askham FanthorpeCBEFRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet, who published as U. A. Fanthorpe.

Ursula Fanthorpe (July 22, 1929 — April 28, 2009), British ...

Her poetry comments mainly on social issues.

Life and work

Early years and education

Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was the daughter of a judge,^[1] or as she put it "middle-class but honest parents".^[2] She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, in Surrey, and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she "came to life",^[2] receiving a first-classdegree in English language and literature.

Working life

She taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College for 16 years, but then left teaching for jobs as a secretary, receptionist and hospital clerk in Bristol – in her poems, she later remembered some of the patients for whose records she had been responsible.^[3]

Fanthorpe's first volume of poetry, Side Effects (1978), has been said to "unsentimentally recover the Fanthorpe, U (rsula) A (skham) - FULAB