Description: Margiad Evans (1909-58) was an outstanding writer of the Welsh borderlands whose work was widely admired during her lifetime. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, and autobiographical works of great originality and nuance. Her life was transformed in later years by epilepsy, followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumor that led to her early death. This major volume of essays sets out to rediscover the extraordinary work of Margiad Evans, from her use of folktale and the Gothic to the influence of her epilepsy on her creative work.
Brief description: Kirsti Bohata is professor of English and co-director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, Swansea University.
Review Quotes: "This is an excellent collection of essays on the early twentieth-century writer Margiad Evans, a distinctive and original writer whose talent has been little recognized. The contributors draw on a wealth of undiscovered archival resources in this scholarly and engaging account of many different aspects of her life and work--including her identity as a woman, her epilepsy and medical condition, and her gothic imagination."
--Mary Joannou, Anglia Ruskin University