Patricia Beer (4 November 1919 – 15 August 1999) was born to a family of Plymouth Brethren, a strict religious order. She studied at the universities of Exeter and Oxford, then taught in Italy for seven years. On returning to England in 1953, she became Senior Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths, University of London (1962–1968). She began to publish poetry...
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