Word: hansford
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...left school at 16, Thomas had decided that he was a poet and that his art would help him escape his native Swansea, Wales, and "the smug darkness of a provincial town." After one of his poems appeared in a London newspaper, he received a complimentary letter from Pamela Hansford Johnson, a bank clerk and aspiring poet who would later become a well-known novelist. A correspondence developed, during which Thomas assumed the roles of mentor, critic and romantic outlaw...
DIED. Pamela Hansford Johnson, 69, British novelist, critic and playwright and the wife of Scientist-Novelist C.P. Snow for 30 years until his death in 1980; in London. A full-time writer from the age of 22, Johnson turned out 27 novels, the last, A Bonfire, to be published in the U.S. next month. Though her books did not sell as well as those written by Snow, her second husband, critics praised them for satirical wit and deft malice...
Polemics did not ruffle Snow. Tall, portly and bald, he remained a genial, accessible figure in London's streets and clubs. He lived quietly with Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson, whom he married in 1950, and openly relished the honors that rained down on him. He was made a life peer by the Labor government of Harold Wilson in 1964. Although the practice was uncommon in such circumstances, Lord Snow took out a coat of arms. The design bridged the two cultures, showing two quill pens crossed over a telescope. It also included two Siamese cats, his favorite breed...