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Gloucestershire Poets, Writers and Artists Collection U.A. Fanthorpe Collection
U.A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) was one of Britain’s most talented poets. Born in Kent and educated at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and the University of London Institute of Education, U. A. went on to become Head of English at Cheltenham Ladies’ College. Her career then took a different direction when she left to train as a counsellor and was employed as a hospital clerk at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. It was here she developed her poetry, culminating in her first work to be published entitled Side Effects (1978). Between 1983 and 1985, U.A. was Writer in Residence at St. Martin’s College, Lancaster, before moving on to become Northern Arts Fellow at Durham and Newcastle. In 1994 U.A. was the first woman in 315 years to be nominated for the Professor of Poetry post at Oxford. In 1988 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2001 given a CBE. U.A. also received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2003, as well as holding honorary doctorates from the University of the West of England and the University of Gloucestershire. She lived with her partner Rosie Bailey, often the second voice within the poetry, in Gloucestershire. U.A. Fanthorpe and Rosie Bailey deposited a collection of correspondence and related papers dating from 1976 to the present, including draft poems and ideas. The collection comprises several boxes which are currently in the process of being catalogued. Any requests for access must be made to the Senior Information Adviser. |
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