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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Jane Williams |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gwyneth Tyson Roberts |
ISBN: | 1786835630 9781786835635 |
OCLC Number: | 1126339870 |
Description: | 152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | 1 Becoming a Writer p. 1 -- 2 Responses to the Blue Books p. 20 -- 3 Varieties of Life Writing p. 47 -- 4 Decisions and Directions p. 71 -- 5 The Writing of History p. 94. |
Series Title: | Writers of Wales. |
Responsibility: | Gwyneth Tyson Roberts. |
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"This elegantly written study is as engrossing as it is revealing of the life and impressive work of a sadly neglected woman writer of some importance in Welsh cultural history. Williams excelled as a redoubtable polemicist, a sophisticated biographer, a pioneering historian and a cunning ghost writer of Betsi Cadwaladr's colorful memoirs." -- M. Wynn Thomas, Swansea University "Ysgafell has at last been granted what she deserves in this finely detailed and highly readable critical biography, which rescues from oblivion an accomplished and versatile writer, and rediscovers for a new generation of readers a markedly intelligent and unconventional Welsh Victorian." -- Jane Aaron, University of South Wales Read more...

