Emma Turl

TURL, (Margaret) Emma. b. Shrewsbury, 1946. She was educated at Stamford High School for Girls, Lincolnshire, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read English. Following a Certificate of Education Course, she worked for two years in western Uganda (Kinyamasika TTC) with Voluntary Service Overseas, and subsequently married a secondary-school teacher in Ghana. There they spent ten further years, in three different regions, during which time she taught for a short period (Navrongo Secondary School) and their two children were born. The family returned to UK in 1981 and settled in Essex. Emma Turl grew up singing the psalm texts of Miles Coverdale* in church, and was influenced by her...