Kathleen Shirley Toulson (née Dixon; 20 May 1924 – 23 September 2018) was an English writer, poet, journalist and local politician.
[2] She attended Prior's Field School and worked with the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II and married Norman Toulson, an army lieutenant, in 1944: they divorced in 1951.
She then studied English at Birkbeck, University of London, and worked at Foyles bookshop before becoming a journalist.
[1][2] In 1962 she and her husband Alan Brownjohn were elected as Labour councillors in the Wandsworth London Borough Council.
[1] Her 1973 short story 'Playground of England', appearing in the Welsh journal Planet,[5] satirized the objectification of Wales as a tourist destination by English second home owners.