Patricia Beer, literary and personal papers 20th century

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Patricia Beer, literary and personal papers 20th century

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Beer, Patricia.

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Patricia Beer was born in Exmouth, Devon on 4 November 1919. She was the younger daughter of Andrew William Beer, a railway clerk at Exeter station and his wife Harriet Jeffery, a schoolteacher. She was educated at Exmouth Grammar School and took a first-class degree in English at Exeter University, after which, in 1941, she went up to St Hugh's College, Oxford to study for a BLitt. On completion of her formal education Beer travelled to Italy where she taught at the University of P...