Rosemary Tonks

(October 17th, 1928 — April 15th, 2014)

Rosemary Tonks was a UK poet and author. In the 1970s, she disappeared from the public eye following worsening complications from illnesses (paratyphoid and polio) and a conversion to fundamentalist christianity.

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The Bloater

Rosemary Tonks
Contemporary UK Literature

I hadn’t heard about Rosemary Tonks until lately when I skimmed part of an article about her in The New Yorker. It wasn’t so much her style or subject matter that drew me to her work. It was the fact that she seemed so dead set on destroying it.