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