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Ransford, Tessa

LC control no.n 90630805
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6069.T499
Personal name headingRansford, Tessa
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Variant(s)Stiven, Tessa
Birth date1938-07-08
Death date2015-09-02
Place of birthMumbai (India)
Place of deathEdinburgh (Scotland)
Field of activityEnglish poetry Scottish poetry
AffiliationUniversity of Edinburgh
Scottish Poetry Library (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Profession or occupationLibrary directors Poets
Found innuc90-23211: Author's Fools and angels, 1983, c1984 (hdg. on NBuU-PO rept.: Ransford, Tessa; usage: Tessa Ransford)
Her A dancing innocence, 1988: t.p. (Tessa Ransford) cover p. 4 (b. India, educ. Edinburgh Univ., Director of the Scottish Poetry Library)
RLIN UKBPGB8927826-B (Ransford, Tessa, 1938-)
Medusa dozen and other poems, 1994: t.p. (Tessa Ransford) t.p. verso (By the same author (as Tessa Stiven) ... (as Tessa Ransford))
Her While it is ... 1977: t.p. (Tessa Stiven)
GB 77-28855 (Stiven, Tessa)
Scotsman WWW site, viewed Oct. 2, 2015 (Tessa Ransford, poet and Scottish Poetry Library founder; born: 8 July, 1938 in Mumbai; died: 2 September, 2015 in Edinburgh, aged 76; devoted to poetry and championing Scottish poetry; in 1950 she married Kay Stiven; her first marriage was dissolved and in 1989 she married the publisher Callum Macdonald)
LC database, Oct. 2, 2015 (on resources published between 1998 and 2014 (works of or about poetry, and interviews): hdg.: Ransford, Tessa; usage: Tessa Ransford; on resource published 1977 (work of poetry): hdg.: Stiven, Tessa; usage: Tessa Stiven)
Associated languageeng
Invalid LCCNn 78045918