Marjorie Boulton (7 May 1924 – 30 August 2017) was a British author and poet writing in both

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and

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Biography

Marjorie Boulton studied English at

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where she was taught by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. She was a candidate for the

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in 2008. She taught English literature in teacher training and (from 1962 to 1970) as a college principal for 24 years before turning to full-time research and writing. She is a well-known writer in Esperanto. Boulton in her later years was president of two Esperanto organisations, Kat-amikaro and ODES. She was the author of ''Zamenhof: Creator of Esperanto'' — a biography of L. L. Zamenhof published in 1960 by

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of London. She also wrote a widely-used series of introductory texts on literary studies: ''The Anatomy of Poetry'' (1953), ''The Anatomy of Prose'' (1954), ''The Anatomy of Drama'' (1960), ''The Anatomy of Language'' (1968), ''The Anatomy of the Novel'' (1975) and ''The Anatomy of Literary Studies'' (1980). Her first book was ''Preliminaries: Poems'' (1949). Later books of poetry, as well as short story collections, were in Esperanto, which she learnt in 1949. She wrote as well ''Saying What We Mean'' (1959), ''Words in Real Life'' (1965) and ''Reading in Real Life'' (1971). She had also translated ''Harivansh Rai Bachchan's'' ''MADHUSALA'' (1935) to English.

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