Frances Mary Callan grew up in North Shields in NE England. She studied French and Latin at the university of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and in Toulouse. Poetry filled the family bookshelves, and Mary revelled in the work of G.K.Chesterton, Tennyson, Housman, Shakespeare, Yeats, Keats, Donne and Hopkins, as well as Verlaine, Baudelaire and Ronsard. Mary started writingRead more about F Mary Callan[…]