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Kate Roberts / Katie Gramich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gramich, Katie.
- Series:
- Writers of Wales.
- Writers of Wales
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and literature--Wales--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Wales--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Wales.
- Wales--In literature.
- Roberts, Kate, 1891-1985--Criticism and interpretation.
- Roberts, Kate.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Roberts is widely acknowledged as the major twentieth-century novelist and short story writer to have written in the Welsh language, being known and revered in Wales as 'the Queen of our Literature'. Much of her work has been translated into English and other languages and yet she remains today relatively little known and under-appreciated in comparison, for example, with other female contemporaries who wrote in English, such as Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen. This volume seeks to redress the balance, bringing the life and work of this extraordinary novelist, playwrig
- Contents:
- Preface; List of illustrations; 'Before 1917. . .': the making of a writer; From playwright to prose writer: 1917-1928; Finding a voice: 1928-1946; 'The struggle of a woman's soul': 1946-1960; 'This stiff, indomitable queen of Welsh letters':1960-1985; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [118]-122) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-20080-X
- 0-7083-2339-1
- OCLC:
- 768082850
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