Writers of Wales: Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Cyfrol sy'n ystyried Hester Lynch Piozzi fel awdures o Gymru, ac sy'n nodi pwysigrwydd ei phenderfyniad i adeiladu cartref hardd Brynbella yng ngogledd Cymru. Trafodir yn fanwl hefyd agweddau Celtaidd ei barddoniaeth gynnar a'i rhyddiaith ddiweddarach.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

This book considers Hester Lynch Piozzi as a Welsh writer of Wales, and documents the importance of her decision to build the beautiful Brynbella in north Wales. The Celtic aspects of her early poetry and her later prose works are considered in detail.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Chapter 1 Hester Lynch Salusbury: ‘a thousand pretty Tricks, […] a Thousand pretty Stories and […] a Thousand pretty Verses’ Chapter 2 The Two Hesters ‘have murder’d Peace & Happiness at Home’ Chapter 3 The Arrivals of Queeney and the Great Cham. Chapter 4 Hester Brewster, or, ‘Women have a manifest Advantage over Men in the doing Business’ Chapter 5 ‘Like a Rocket She rises, and leaves us to Stare’ Chapter 6 ‘To revise my past Life, & resolve upon a new one.’ Chapter 7 ‘To hie home and dye like a Hare upon the old Farm, near the Place I was kindled at’ Chapter 8 . ‘Each bold Cambrio Briton’s a Stranger to Fear’ Notes Bibliography Index

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Michael J. Franklin is Professor of English at Swansea University.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

• This book is a detailed textual analysis • It offers a Welsh perspective • A feminist approach.