Recovering the Voice of Louisa Matilda Spooner

Rita Singer (Invited speaker)

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Description

An evening rediscovering Welsh women's writing in Welsh and English.
The Women’s Equality Network (WEN) Wales is delighted to host an International Women’s Day 2017 fringe event in partnership with Honno Welsh Women’s Press. Honno is an independent co-operative press run by women and committed to bringing you the best in Welsh women's writing. Come along to this event and hear from Welsh women writers about their work and experiences of writing and publishing in Wales. Cheese and wine will be served.

Period	06 Mar 2017
Event title	An Evening with Honno Welsh Women’s Press. Organised by WEN Wales Cymru.
Event type	Other
Location	Aberystwyth, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Regional

Keywords

Wales
History
Literature
women's writing
historical fiction
novel
Victorian novel
Wars of the Roses

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Gladys of Harlech was first published anonymously in 1858. Set during the Wars of the Roses in the fifteenth century, Gladys of Harlech tells the story of the granddaughter of the last Welsh keeper of Harlech Castle. Fighting on the side of the House of Lancaster, Gladys and her family flee into hiding in the mountains after the castle falls into the hands of the rival Yorkists at the end of a long siege. Years later, Gladys is captured and pressed into serfdom by the new English keeper. Gladys falls in love with a young English nobleman but finds herself torn between her affection for him and her sense of duty to her oppressed people. After escaping her jailers, Gladys is sent on a quest to France to free England and Wales from the clutches of King Richard III. The Cambrian Journal praised it's "true spirit of patriotism [which] penetrates... Gladys of Harlech, and gives life and vigour..., which is refreshing to contemplate."

Recovering the Voice of Louisa Matilda Spooner

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Related content

Activities

Book Launch: Honno Edition of L. M. Spooner, Gladys of Harlech

Gladys of Harlech and the Wars of the Roses

FORGOTTEN WOMEN - REVIVING THE CLASSICS / MERCHED ANGHOFIEDIG: ADFYWIO’R CLASURON

Research outputs

Introduction

Adapting the Risorgimento: Ideas of Liberal Nationhood in L. M. Spooner's Country Landlords (1860)

Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner’s Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858)