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It's been superlong in the making, but here it is as last, the third and final part in my little series about Allen Raine, her #WelshRevival novel and a discussion of #LiteraryLandscape and #music
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/allen-raine-soft-power-rebel-part-3/
#Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #Literature #LitStudies #Novel
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It's been superlong in the making, but here it is as last, the third and final part in my little series about Allen Raine, her #WelshRevival novel and a discussion of #LiteraryLandscape and #music
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/allen-raine-soft-power-rebel-part-3/
#Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #Literature #LitStudies #Novel
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If you enjoyed this trip through six early short stories from #Wales, I've now bundled them up and made them available as an #OpenAccess collection in the shape of a PDF: "Wanderings in Wales" by Thomas Richards.
I'm also playing with the idea of providing an epub. Let me know whether you'd be interested in that.
https://works.hcommons.org/records/havkt-j1d73
#Literature #ShortStory #Gothic #RomanticPeriod #RomanticLit #WelshWritingInEnglish
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It took a little longer than anticipated, but here is the final of six stories, 'The Snow Storm' by Thomas Richards (1800-1877). The story tells the adventurous escape of a cattle trader from the hands of a murderous band of robbers one stormy winter night.
This completes my little project of creating the first freely available, #DigitalEdition of this set of stories by Richards, a shamefully neglected early contributor to the #WelshWritingInEnglish school during the late #RomanticPeriod.
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The pen-ultimate part of the 'Wanderings in Wales' short story series by Thomas Richards is now available on my website. 'The Gipsies of Mowddwy' tells the story of cold-blooded murder without any redemption or remorse.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/the-gipsies-of-mowddwy/
#Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #RomanticFiction #ShortStory #Literature #DigitalEdition #OpenAccess
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Hot off the digital press: the fourth of six short stories by Thomas Richards.
'Anna of Llynn' tells the sad tale of two young lovers' happiness spoilt by a third jealous heart.
This story comes with a content warning about descriptions and portrayals of mental illness.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/anna-of-llynn/
#Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #RomanticFiction #ShortStory #Literature #CW #DigitalEdition #OpenAccess
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The third story in the series of 'Wanderings in Wales' is now up on my website. Frankly, 'The Spectre of Pont Vathu' is my personal favourite from the whole set. It's a thoroughly creepy story that knows exactly when and where to stop.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/the-spectre-of-pont-vathu-2/
#Wales #Literature #RomanticFiction #Gothic #Ghosts #WelshWritingInEnglish #ShortStory
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Hot off the digital edition press, the second of six short stories. Follow Thomas Richards for a tale of a 'Sunrise from Cader Idris'.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/sunrise-from-cader-idris/
#Wales #Literature #WelshWritingInEnglish #ShortStory #Gothic #Folklore
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Following my own panel (and paper) and book launch yesterday afternoon and evening, we're back this morning with the first of the last three sessions. Robert Minhinnick exploring the underscapes of poetry (possibly including his own, time depending) and Neil Gower sharing his illustration practices with us.
Colin unfortunately has technical troubles this morning and sadly can't join us.
#AWWE2025 #WelshWritingInEnglish #literature -
Our first panel this morning takes us to overlooked amateur poets farming communities and hidden selves. We got the WiFi working for all our remote attendants and the windows wide open for the in-person audience to make sure nobody is getting roasted already this early in the morning.
#AWWE2025 #WelshWritingInEnglish #Literature -
After a round of carbs for dinner, we're enjoying our first creative keynote this weekend with Philip Gross talking about his poetic writing journeys. We have just been tantalised by the poetic promise of a transcendental visit to IKEA.
#AWWE2025 #WelshWritingInEnglish #literature -
Obligatory room lottery picture from #AWWE2025.
We're just about to kick off procedures with the first panel presented by Mary-Ann Constantine, Liz Edwards and their merry band of Curious Travellers.
#WelshWritingInEnglish #literature -
Presentation for #AWWE2025 this weekend is go.
This has got to be the closest I've ever finished putting together my paper and presentation ahead of a conference.#WelshWritingInEnglish #RomanticFiction #NineteenthCentury #Literature #Wales #Tasmania
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Presentation for #AWWE2025 this weekend is go.
This has got to be the closest I've ever finished putting together my paper and presentation ahead of a conference.#WelshWritingInEnglish #RomanticFiction #NineteenthCentury #Literature #Wales #Tasmania
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Presentation for #AWWE2025 this weekend is go.
This has got to be the closest I've ever finished putting together my paper and presentation ahead of a conference.#WelshWritingInEnglish #RomanticFiction #NineteenthCentury #Literature #Wales #Tasmania
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Presentation for #AWWE2025 this weekend is go.
This has got to be the closest I've ever finished putting together my paper and presentation ahead of a conference.#WelshWritingInEnglish #RomanticFiction #NineteenthCentury #Literature #Wales #Tasmania
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Presentation for #AWWE2025 this weekend is go.
This has got to be the closest I've ever finished putting together my paper and presentation ahead of a conference.#WelshWritingInEnglish #RomanticFiction #NineteenthCentury #Literature #Wales #Tasmania
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I'm rewarding myself for sending off three things with some indulgent research. Also, because it's the hot thing to do, this is your reminder that next week's AWWE conference can also be attended virtually from afar -- which will give you all the chance to hear me talk some more about Thomas Richards, Dolgellau.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/thomas-richards-1800-1877-a-bibliography-in-progress-reloaded/
#Wales #Literature #WelshWritingInEnglish #Bibliography #Romantics #Tasmania
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Reposting my #Introduction because there's a flurry of new folks -- and I'm an eternal optimist at finding fellow Welsh writing in English peeps. So here goes:
I work as the Community Outreach Officer for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the #Bywgraffiadur, at the #NationalLibraryOfWales. Our goal is to close representational gaps and set the Dictionary on a course of recording the diverse lives of historical Welsh people in all their facets. https://biography.wales/
Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. I'm also into #PublicHistory and community outreach, sometimes abt #PortHeritage, #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.
I share longer #WiP here: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/
Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.
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Another milestone on the road to publishing day achieved: finished reading my way through the printer proofs -- 500+ pages and a few more footnotes added.
If in the meantime you'd like to find out more about this Welsh social novel from 1860, here's a link to a section from the introduction's draft version.
#WelshWritingInEnglish #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #Literature #Writing
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/announcing-the-37th-honno-welsh-womens-classics-volume/
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Following from my earlier post about Ada Evans of Newcastle-Emlyn, here's the next part in how she became the famous writer 'Allen Raine'. In this second part, I'm sketching the scope of her work and set it in context of her own life.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/allen-raine-soft-power-rebel-part-2/
#Literature #LitStudies #Novel #histodons #Victorian #humanities #WelshWritingInEnglish #Wales
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Following from my earlier post about Ada Evans of Newcastle-Emlyn, here's the next part in how she became the famous writer 'Allen Raine'. In this second part, I'm sketching the scope of her work and set it in context of her own life.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/allen-raine-soft-power-rebel-part-2/
#Literature #LitStudies #Novel #histodons #Victorian #humanities #WelshWritingInEnglish #Wales
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It's publishing day!
If you've always wondered how the last invasion of Britain (which took place in Wales in 1797!) panned out in fiction, here's my two-cents worth in the shape of an #OA article:"‘[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction’: Fictionalising the French invasion of Fishguard"'
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03061973241295331
#Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #HistoricalFiction #LitStudies #Literature #histodons #OpenAccess
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I know we're all a bit preoccupied with goings on in the States and whether they elect to remain a democracy or abolish it. But nevertheless, here's my humble attempt at a diversion.
I've just dotted the i-s and crossed the t-s for my introduction to the latest Honno Welsh Women's Classics volume. And because I'm in a celebratory mood, here's an extract from said intro in which I discuss the role of the Black servant Yarico and her significance for #Victorian literature set in rural #Wales
#WelshWritingInEnglish #BlackHistoryIsWelshHistory #BlackHistory #Literature #Writing
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A few days ago I shared a copy of a little-known #Gothic short story by a late-Romantic Welsh author. Today I bring you the academic version of a "reaction video", aka a conference paper that I gave a few years back about "The Spectre of Pont Vathu".Boogedy, boogedy!
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What's this? The announcement for the 37th volume in the Honno Welsh Women's Classics series?
If Victorian novels with a smattering of drama and trips to revolutionary Italy are your thing, I've got just the right doorstop for you.
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/announcing-the-37th-honno-welsh-womens-classics-volume/
#Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #Literature #LitStudies #Novel
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While I'm still putting the finishing touches on the introduction (i.e. I'm still writing it), Honno are already taking pre-orders for their next volume in the Welsh Women's Classics series.
If high Victorian drama in the manner of Middlemarch is your thing, then this book is for you!
https://www.honno.co.uk/books/country-landlords
#Wales #Victorians #LitStudies #Novel #WelshWritingInEnglish
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We're getting to the point where things are beginning to be more real for the upcoming Honno Welsh Women's Classics volume. The publishers went with my suggestion of this gorgeous view across the bay of Naples by artist Penry Williams. We've even started the process of picking the colour for the wrapper out of three different shades of blue. All that is needed now is to finish editing my way through this #Victorian brick and writing the introduction for it. Other than that, keep your eyes open for more upcoming info about _Country Landlords_ by Louisa Matilda Spooner.
Image: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bay-of-naples-seen-from-the-scalinata-petraio-153456
Honno: https://www.honno.co.uk/classics
#litstudies #Literature #WelshWritingInEnglish #Wales -
For anyone interested in Romantic essays about Welsh #folklore, #antiquarian studies, #Gothic and short stories, #HistoricalFiction or early #Tasmanian writing, allow me to share my comprehensive bibliography of Thomas Richards (1800-1877), formerly of Dolgellau before emigrating to Hobart via London in the early 1830s. Wherever possible, I have linked to #OpenAccess digital copies of any of his writings that I have been able to trace. This is a work in progress, so I hope to share future updates of the bibliography.
#Romantodons #Wales #Tasmania #LitStudies #WelshWritingInEnglish @litstudies
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/thomas-richards-1800-1877-a-bibliography-in-progress/
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Once again the #anniversary of the #Fishguard Invasion of 1797, aka the last invasion of the British mainland by a foreign army, is upon us.
I currently have an article in preparation with Literature & History. So while they are getting it ready for publication later this year, enjoy this #OpenAccess pre-print version now. In this article, I discuss three #Victorian historical novels about the invasion and their radically different outlook.
#Wales #histodons #LitStudies #HistoricalFiction #WelshWritingInEnglish
Direct download of the paper:
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:63597/Long read on my blog, if you don't want to download:
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/a-very-improbable-and-imaginative-fiction-fictionalising-the-french-invasion-of-fishguard/ -
As has risen from the Pit of Glitches, I'm sticking my head over the online parapet again to let anyone know I'm here to discuss all things @litstudies @heritage @histodons mostly with an eye on #Wales, #WelshWritingInEnglish and #WelshHeritage and #History. If you want to keep up with the project I'm working for, have a look at our brand-spanking new @PortsPastPres feed.
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This week I have begun editing the #Honno Classics Series volume that's going to be released in spring 2025 -- and there's some brilliant gendered shade getting thrown around.
This extract is from a conversation between a young woman and the man she believes to be her father. She's only in her teens, but uses patriarchy's logic against itself.
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@kelseashanty @litstudies Strap yourself in for one of the perhaps best early novels written about the French Invasion of Fishguard in 1797. Not quite Napoleonic, but co-temporary.
Margaret Ellen James: The Fishguard invasion by the French in 1797
Publication date 1892 #C19Lit
#WelshWritingInEnglish #VictorianLit @litstudies -
I work as the Community Outreach Officer for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the #Bywgraffiadur, at the #NationalLibraryOfWales. Our goal is to close representational gaps and set the Dictionary on a course of recording the diverse lives of historical Welsh people in all their facets. https://biography.wales/
Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19, so there is lots of overspill into #RomanticLit and #EdwardianLit, #CulturalHeritage and #History of this small nation. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. For recent projects, I've undertaken some #PublicHistory work and community outreach about #PortHeritage, #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.
I share longer #WorkInProgress on my blog: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/
Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.
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Hot new content dropped in the International Journal for Welsh Writing in English!
‘Uncertain notice’: Unearthing Wales in William Wordsworth’s ‘Simon Lee’ and ‘Tintern Abbey’
Author: Matthew C. Jones (University of Florida)#OpenAccess #WelshWritingInEnglish #Wordsworth #RomanticLit #Lit #Poetry #Wales
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I'm a PostDoctoral researcher at #AberystwythUniversity working currently for the #PortsPastAndPresent project. For this project I have just produced a series of short documentary films around #CoastalHeritage of the #IrishSea (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrSqDy-CF3zCb7oDOvhwml6P47pF9YGOA) as a new way of supporting #SustainableTourism in ferry port communities.
Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19, so there is lots of overspill into #RomanticLit and #EdwardianLit, #CulturalHeritage and #History of this small nation. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. I've also done some #PublicHistory work and community outreach during the recent #CommemorationPeriod around #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.
I share longer #WorkInProgress on my blog: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/
Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.
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The latest issue of #Planet: The Welsh Internationalist quarterly magazine is out and the lovely editors gave me a spot in the #review section. So here's my thoughts in Rebecca F. John's #HistoricalNovel Vulcana, just published this spring by #honno
And if you haven't yet got a subscription for this wonderful indie #magazine from Wales, what's keeping you?
#Fiction #HistoricalFiction #WelshWritingInEnglish #LitStudies @litstudies
https://www.planetmagazine.org.uk/planet-online/251/review/rita-singer
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It's #DylanDay! Share your favourite piece of writing by DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953), poet and prose writer!
'He always stressed that poetry is primarily a matter of craft - that a poet works 'out of words' (creating meaning), not 'towards words' (to create atmosphere) - suggesting again something instinctually Welsh in his poetic temperament.' -- Walford Davies
https://biography.wales/article/s10-THOM-MAR-1914
#Literature #Llenyddiaeth #Barddoniaeth #Poetry #Bywgraffiadur #WelshWritingInEnglish -
ANNE ADALISA PUDDICOMBE ('Allen Raine'; b. 1836), novelist, died #OnThisDay 1908.
'In 1894 she shared a prize offered at the Caernarvon national eisteddfod for a serial dealing with Welsh life, and this was later published in the North Wales Observer under the title 'Ynysoer.' In June 1896 she finished writing a novel called 'Mifanwy,' but having had it rejected by six publishers, she changed the title to 'A Welsh Singer , by Allen Raine.' [...] After this she produced one novel after another in quick succession, Torn Sails, 1898; By Berwen Banks, 1899; Garthowen, 1900; A Welsh Witch, 1902; On the Wings of the Wind, 1903; Hearts of Wales, 1905; and Queen of the Rushes, 1906 (which depicts a number of incidents of the religious revival of 1904 and 1905).' -- David Jenkins
https://biography.wales/article/s-PUDD-ADA-1836
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Allen_Raine_(1836%E2%80%931908).png
#Bywgraffiadur #WelshWritingInEnglish #Literature #Wales -
Advance editor information sent off to Honno for the next Welsh Women's Classics volume ✅
Y'alls buckle in for next spring's brick straight out of Victorian #WelshWritingInEnglish. We've got star-crossed lovers, intrigue and guns on the Naples barricades.
Watch this space: https://www.honno.co.uk/classics -
FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (1793 - 1835), poet, was buried #OnThisDay 1835.
'Her education was patchy but she read avidly and her progress and development were so exceptional that she was able to publish her Juvenile Poems in 1808 shortly after her fourteenth birthday.' -- Gwyn Jones
https://biography.wales/article/s3-HEMA-DOR-1793
Darlun/Image: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales#Bywgraffiadur #WelshWritingInEnglish #Wales #LitStudies #Literature #WomensHistory
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ANNE BEALE (1816 - 1900), writer, 'made her home for many years at Llandilo, Carmarthenshire. She was the author of many novels and stories, mainly for girls, and of a volume of Poems published in 1842, the preface being signed 'Llwynhelig, Llandilo.' Several of her novels deal with the manners and customs of the Welsh people. Few English writers have written more appreciatively of Wales.' -- William Williams
https://biography.wales/article/s-BEAL-ANN-1816#Bywgraffiadur #WomensHistory #WelshWritingInEnglish #Wales #LitStudies
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Lovely start to the conference with the launch of this year's Jonno Classic volume, Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel by Anna Maria Bennett with an introduction by Mary Chadwick, the editor.
Steep encouragement to bump Austen off the syllabus and exchange it for this goodie.
https://www.honno.co.uk/books/ellen%2C-countess-of-castle-howel -
Considering that I'm not even giving a paper this year, I just won #AWWE24 simply on the room front.
Allow me a round of hysterical laughter.
#WelshWritingInEnglish #annualconference #Gregynog
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Some atmospheric impressions from yesterday's excursion into Allen Raine country in the Tresaith, Aberporth, Mwnt, Blaenannerch area on the occasion of giving a talk about the author, her life and works. I can only repeat myself: go and read Allen Raine! Especially when you know all nd love this stretch along the Welsh coast. There is so much to discover in her novels.
#WelshWritingInEnglish #litstudies #Wales #photography -
It's #DylanDay! Share your favourite piece of writing by DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953), poet and prose writer!
'He always stressed that poetry is primarily a matter of craft - that a poet works 'out of words' (creating meaning), not 'towards words' (to create atmosphere) - suggesting again something instinctually Welsh in his poetic temperament.' -- Walford Davies
https://biography.wales/article/s10-THOM-MAR-1914
#Literature #Llenyddiaeth #Barddoniaeth #Poetry #Bywgraffiadur #WelshWritingInEnglish -
It's #DylanDay! Share your favourite piece of writing by DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953), poet and prose writer!
'He always stressed that poetry is primarily a matter of craft - that a poet works 'out of words' (creating meaning), not 'towards words' (to create atmosphere) - suggesting again something instinctually Welsh in his poetic temperament.' -- Walford Davies
https://biography.wales/article/s10-THOM-MAR-1914
#Literature #Llenyddiaeth #Barddoniaeth #Poetry #Bywgraffiadur #WelshWritingInEnglish -
It's #DylanDay! Share your favourite piece of writing by DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953), poet and prose writer!
'He always stressed that poetry is primarily a matter of craft - that a poet works 'out of words' (creating meaning), not 'towards words' (to create atmosphere) - suggesting again something instinctually Welsh in his poetic temperament.' -- Walford Davies
https://biography.wales/article/s10-THOM-MAR-1914
#Literature #Llenyddiaeth #Barddoniaeth #Poetry #Bywgraffiadur #WelshWritingInEnglish -
Once again the #anniversary of the #Fishguard Invasion of 1797, aka the last invasion of the British mainland by a foreign army, is upon us.
I currently have an article in preparation with Literature & History. So while they are getting it ready for publication later this year, enjoy this #OpenAccess pre-print version now. In this article, I discuss three #Victorian historical novels about the invasion and their radically different outlook.
#Wales #histodons #LitStudies #HistoricalFiction #WelshWritingInEnglish
Direct download of the paper:
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:63597/Long read on my blog, if you don't want to download:
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/a-very-improbable-and-imaginative-fiction-fictionalising-the-french-invasion-of-fishguard/ -
Once again the #anniversary of the #Fishguard Invasion of 1797, aka the last invasion of the British mainland by a foreign army, is upon us.
I currently have an article in preparation with Literature & History. So while they are getting it ready for publication later this year, enjoy this #OpenAccess pre-print version now. In this article, I discuss three #Victorian historical novels about the invasion and their radically different outlook.
#Wales #histodons #LitStudies #HistoricalFiction #WelshWritingInEnglish
Direct download of the paper:
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:63597/Long read on my blog, if you don't want to download:
https://bydbach.hcommons.org/a-very-improbable-and-imaginative-fiction-fictionalising-the-french-invasion-of-fishguard/