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Molly Winifred Holden (7 September 1927 in London – 5 August 1981) was a British poet. [1]

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Biography

Holden grew up in Surrey, and Wiltshire. [2] She graduated from King's College London in 1951. Her maiden name was Gilbert. She was the granddaughter of the popular children's author Henry Gilbert. [3]

She suffered from multiple sclerosis. [4] [5]

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References

  1. "Holden, Molly (1927–1981) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  2. Jenny Stringer, John Sutherland, ed. (1996). The Oxford companion to twentieth-century literature in English . Oxford University Press. p.  310. ISBN   978-0-19-212271-1. Molly Holden poet.
  3. Holden, Molly (1987). Selected poems; Poetry Signatures Series. University of Michigan: Carcanet. p. 117. ISBN   0856356964.
  4. Mark Willhardt; Alan Michael Parker; Andrew Peter Motion, eds. (2000). Who's who in twentieth-century world poetry Who's who series. Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-16356-9.
  5. Ian Ousby; Doris Lessing, eds. (1993). Title The Cambridge guide to literature in English. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-44086-8.