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U. A. Fanthorpe (Ursula Askham Fanthorpe) was born on 22 July, 1929 in London, England, is an English poet 1929–2009. Discover U. A. Fanthorpe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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Ursula Askham Fanthorpe |
| Occupation |
Poet |
| Age |
79 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer |
| Born |
22 July 1929 |
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22 July |
| Birthplace |
London, England |
| Date of death |
28 April, 2009 |
| Died Place |
Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom |
| Nationality |
London, England
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U. A. Fanthorpe Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Ursula Askham Fanthorpe CBE FRSL (22 July 1929 – 28 April 2009) was an English poet, who published as U. A. Fanthorpe.
Her poetry comments mainly on social issues.
Born in south-east London, Fanthorpe was the daughter of a judge, or as she put it "middle-class but honest parents".
She was educated at St Catherine's School, Bramley, in Surrey, and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she "came to life", receiving a first-class degree in English language and literature.
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.
Fanthorpe's first volume of poetry, Side Effects (1978), has been said to "unsentimentally recover the invisible lives and voices of psychiatric patients."
Both became Quakers in the 1980s.
Both were committed Christians.
She was "Writer-in-Residence" at St Martin's College, Lancaster (now the University of Cumbria) in 1983–1985, and later Northern Arts Fellow at Durham and Newcastle universities.
Her 1984 volume Voices Off explores student life, critical vocabulary, and the finding that "naming is power".
Her most famous poem is probably Atlas, which opens, "There is a kind of love called maintenance."
In 1987 Fanthorpe went freelance, giving readings around the country and occasionally abroad.
In 1994 she was nominated for the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry.
Her nine collections of poems were published by Peterloo Poets.
Fanthorpe was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours for services to literature.
In 2003 she received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Among many other awards and honours she was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Bath.
Her Collected Poems was published in 2005.
Many of Fanthorpe's poems bring in two voices.
In her readings the other voice is that of the Bristol academic and teacher R. V. "Rosie" Bailey, Fanthorpe's life partner of 44 years.
They affirmed their long-term relationship with a Civil Partnership in 2006.
The couple co-wrote a collection of poems, From Me To You: love poems, illustrated by Nick Wadley and published in 2007 by Enitharmon.
Fanthorpe died of cancer aged 79 on 28 April 2009, in a hospice near her home in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
