Item III/i/19 - Getting over it: an autobiography

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GB 2014 WS-01-GRX-III/i/19

Title

Getting over it: an autobiography

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  • 1992 (Creation)

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4to, 1 volume

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(1925-2013)

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Bernard, Oliver Owen, son of Capt. Oliver Percy Bernard MC OBE FRIBA, architect, and Edith Dora Hodges (aka Fedora Roselli), singer, d. of Joseph Thomas Hodges, master butcher; b. 6 Dec. 1925; adm. Sept. 1939 (H); left July 1940; RAFVR 1943-7; Goldsmiths’ Coll., Univ. of Lond., 1950-3, BA; teaching English in France 1948-56; advertising copywriter, Nolly Advertising Ltd. 1958-64; English and Drama teacher, Bury St Edmunds GS 1965-82; Gold Medal, Poetry Soc. 1982; author of Country Matters 1961, Poems 1983, Five Peace Poems 1985; ed. and trans. Rimbaud, Collected Poems 1962, Apollinaire, Selected Poems, 1965-85; writer, translator 1961-2001; m. 1st, 1952 Veronica Ann, d. of William Humble, accountant; 2nd, 1958 Jacqueline Pamela Guise, dancer, d. of Walter Guise, fisherman; d. 1 June 2013.

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  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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Final

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Partial

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  • English

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  • Latin

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