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Patricia Beer was born in Exmouth, Devon, and educated at Exmouth Grammar School, Exeter University, and St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She worked in Italy from 1946 to 1953, and was Senior Lecturer at Goldsmith’s College, London, from 1962 to 1968. Her books of poems include The Loss of the Magyar (1959) and Spanish Balcony (1973). Selected Poems came out in 1980. Mrs Beer’s House (1968) is her autobiography; Moon’s Ottery (1978), her only novel, is set in sixteenth-century Devon.
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McEwan, N. (1989). Patricia Beer 1924–. In: McEwan, N. (eds) The Twentieth Century (1900–present). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20151-8_69
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