Author : Gwyneth Tyson Roberts
Release : 2020-03-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 649/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jane Williams (Ysgafell) by : Gwyneth Tyson Roberts
Download or read book Jane Williams (Ysgafell) written by Gwyneth Tyson Roberts. This book was released on 2020-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Williams, under her bardic name Ysgafell, was a writer with a long and varied list of publications: poetry, fiction, a riposte to the 1847 Blue Books, the ‘autobiography’ of Betsi Cadwaladr, a history of Wales, a biography of the historian and patriot Carnhuanawc, and a history of women’s writing in English. In her writing and her life, she crossed and re-crossed boundaries – national, social, literary, linguistic and cultural – and carved out her own path. As a nineteenth-century woman whose writing career spanned fifty years and many genres, including serious non-fiction and texts in English on Wales and matters Welsh, Jane Williams is unique. This is the first full-length study of her life and work, comprising detailed original research from which the author has drawn a picture of a remarkable and impressive woman writer.
