Kate Roberts
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2011
160 pages
978-0-7083-2339-7 (ISBN)
Description
When the Welsh writer Kate Roberts died in 1985 at the age of 94, the Times obituary noted that 'she was felt by many to rank with Maupassant as one of the leading European short story writers'. 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, playwright, short story writer, journalist, and ardent political campaigner to the attention of the wider world audience that the sheer quality of her writing deserves.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
ISBN-13
978-0-7083-2339-7 (9780708323397)
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Katie Gramich
Kate Roberts
Book
02/2011
University of Wales Press
€16.50
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Dr Katie Gramich is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Cardiff University.
Content
- Intro
- 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
