Editing Anthony Burgess (section)

=== Early teaching career ===
Burgess left the army in 1946 with the rank of [[sergeant-major]]. For the next four years he was a lecturer in speech and drama at the Mid-West School of Education near [[Wolverhampton]] and at the Bamber Bridge Emergency Teacher Training College near [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]].<ref name="Oxfordbiog" /> Burgess taught in the extramural department of [[Birmingham University]] (1946–50).<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/85075/Anthony-Burgess Anthony Burgess profile], britannica.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.</ref>

In late 1950, he began working as a secondary school teacher at [[Banbury School|Banbury Grammar School]] (now [[Banbury School]]) teaching English literature. In addition to his teaching duties, he supervised sports and ran the school's drama society. He organised a number of amateur theatrical events in his spare time. These involved local people and students and included productions of [[T. S. Eliot]]'s ''[[Sweeney Agonistes]]''.<ref>{{Harvnb|Lewis|2002|p=168}}.</ref> Reports from his former students and colleagues indicate that he cared deeply about teaching.<ref name="BurgessIngersoll2008">{{cite book|author1=Anthony Burgess|author2=Earl G. Ingersoll|author3=Mary C. Ingersoll|title=Conversations with Anthony Burgess|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KMQddeQeC-8C|year=2008|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-096-8|page=xv}}</ref>

With financial assistance provided by Lynne's father, the couple was able to put a down payment on a cottage in the village of [[Adderbury]], close to [[Banbury]]. He named the cottage "Little Gidding" after one of Eliot's ''[[Four Quartets]]''. Burgess cut his journalistic teeth in Adderbury, writing several articles for the local newspaper, the ''[[Banbury Guardian]]''.<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://geoffreygrigson.wordpress.com/ ''Tiger: The Life and Opinions of Anthony Burgess''], geoffreygrigson.wordpress.com; accessed 26 November 2014.</ref>{{Better source needed|date=January 2018}}