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Elizabeth Jennings (1926 - 2001)
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Elizabeth Joan Jennings, poet, born July 18 1926; died October 26 2001.

Elizabeth was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England in July 18, 1926. Her father was a respected Chief Medical Officer who moved the family to Oxford when she was six years old. She later discovered poetry while attending the Oxford high school.

After attending St Anne's College, Oxford, Elizabeth became a librarian at Oxford city library. Having more time to focus on her writing she published her first collection of..
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Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
- Elizabeth Jennings
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