Library of Wales: Young Emma

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Portread teimladwy a dadlennol o fywyd ar droad yr ugeinfed ganrif sy'n gofnod gonest gan yr awdur W. H. Davies o'i berthynas â gwraig y cyfarfu â hi ar gornel stryd yn Llundain, ac a ddaeth, yn y man, yn wraig iddo.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

A moving and revealing memoir of real life at the turn of the century, Young Emma is W. H. Davies's frank and honest account of the relationship with the woman he encountered on a London street corner who was to become his wife.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer who spent a significant part of his life as a vagabond in the United Kingdom and United States. He began publishing his own poetry in 1905 and became a popular poet in his time, mixing with leading figures of society.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

At the age of fifty, towards the end of the First World War, W. H. Davies decided that he must marry. Spurning London society and the literary circles where he had been lionised since the publication of his Autobiography of a Super-Tramp , he set about looking for the right partner on the streets of London. Young Emma is a moving and revealing memoir told with disarming honesty and humour. Davies records his life with three women: from his affair with Bella, the wife of a Sergeant Major, to his year-long liaison with the gentle Louise, to the turbulent brushes with a society woman who fears for her own life at his hands. He finally meets Emma, then pregnant, at a bus-stop on the Edgware Road. This is the story of their love affair. " Young Emma is a masterpiece, and stranger than any fiction" Sunday Telegraph "Classic... remarkable... an extraordinary manuscript" The Observer “An extraordinary memoir destined to become a classic” Publishers Weekly