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Staffordshire town, 16 miles S of Stafford.
Large Black Country town, originally in Staffordshire. In the year 2001 it was granted city status by the Queen. It is famous for its iron and brass foundaries.
The novelist sisters, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1860-1929) and Edith Henrietta Fowler (1865-1944) were born here.
The poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1956) was born in Wolverhampton.
Perhaps better known for his political statements than his poetry, Enoch Powell (1912-1998) served as the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West for 24 years. Four collections of his poetry were published in his lifetime.
Howard Jacobson (1942- ) used his teaching experiences in Wolverhampton during the 1970's as the backdrop for his fictitious Wrottesley Polytechnic in the novel Coming from behind (1983). The suggested removal of the Twentieth Century Studies Department to the Wrottesley Ramblers football ground in the book has a basis in fact.
Bob Bibby (1942- ) also highlights the local football team in his novel The Liquidator (2002) which begins at a match between Wolves and West Bromwich.
The novelist, Michael Dibdin (1947- ), best known for his detective novels featuring Zen Aurelio, was born in Wolverhampton.
Location map of Wolverhampton courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
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9 December 2004
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