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List Of Welsh Writers
This list of Welsh writers is an incomplete ''alphabetical'' list of writers from Wales. It includes writers in all literary genres, writing in English, Welsh, Latin, or any other language, who have a Wikipedia page. Description as a writer precedes other occupations. It is a subsidiary to the List of Welsh people. See also List of Welsh-language authors, List of Welsh women writers and List of Welsh-language poets (6th century to c. 1600). Abbreviations: c. = about, fl. = active; B = writing in Brythonic, C = writing in Chinese, E = writing in English (including Middle English), F = writing in French, G = writing in German, L = writing in Latin, sl = writing in sign language, W = writing in Welsh (including Middle Welsh). A B C D E F G H I J * Angharad James (1677–1749, W), poet and harpist * Bill James (James Tucker, born 1929, E), novelist *Christine James (living, W), poet and academic * Daniel James (Gwyrosydd, 1848–1920, W), poet and hymnist * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Genre
A literary genre is a category of literature. Genres may be determined by literary technique, tone, content, or length (especially for fiction). They generally move from more abstract, encompassing classes, which are then further sub-divided into more concrete distinctions. The distinctions between genres and categories are flexible and loosely defined, and even the rules designating genres change over time and are fairly unstable. Genres can all be in the form of prose or poetry. Additionally, a genre such as satire, allegory or pastoral might appear in any of the above, not only as a subgenre (see below), but as a mixture of genres. Finally, they are defined by the general cultural movement of the historical period in which they were composed. History of genres Aristotle The concept of genre began in the works of Aristotle, who applied biological concepts to the classification of literary genres, or, as he called them, "species" (eidē). These classifications are mainl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliet Ace
Ann Juliet Ace (born 27 June 1938) is a dramatist and screenwriter who contributed to '' EastEnders'' and '' The District Nurse''. She also supplied many original scripts and dramatisations to BBC Radio drama, including ''The Archers''. She wrote the screenplay for '' Cameleon'', which won the Golden Spire Award for Best Dramatic Television Feature at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival. Early life and teaching Juliet Ace was the third daughter of Charles and Glenys Ace, born and raised in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire in South Wales. She was educated at Llanelli Girls' Grammar School, City of Coventry Training College, which was soon to become Coventry College of Education and be incorporated into the University of Warwick, where she specialised in drama and art. She then trained further at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. Ace taught for three years in St Mary Cray before joining a children's theatre company, and then working in weekly repertory at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiffany Atkinson
Tiffany Atkinson (born 1972) is a British academic and award-winning poet. In 1993, she moved to Wales, where after completing her studies in Cardiff, she became a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. In 2014, she was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She was the recipient of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award. Biography Born in West Berlin, Germany, to an army family, Atkinson was brought up in Germany and Britain. After graduating in English at Birmingham University in 1993, she moved to Wales, where she gained a PhD in critical theory from Cardiff University. Atkinson then conducted workshops and academic seminars in eastern Europe for the British Council. In both 1993 and 1994, she won the BBC Radio's Young Poet of the Year contest. She became Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, while undertaking research into theories of the body and the history of anatomy, contempor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherborne
Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The parish includes the hamlets of Nether Coombe and Lower Clatcombe. The A30 road, which connects London to Penzance, runs through the town. In the 2011 census the population of Sherborne parish and the two electoral wards was 9,523. 28.7% of the population is aged 65 or older. Sherborne's historic buildings include Sherborne Abbey, its manor house, independent schools, and two castles: the ruins of a 12th-century fortified palace and the 16th-century mansion known as Sherborne Castle built by Sir Walter Raleigh. Much of the old town, including the abbey and many medieval and Georgian buildings, is built from distinctive ochre-coloured ham stone. The town is served by Sherborne railway station. Toponymy The town was named ''scir burne'' by the Saxon inhabitants, a name meaning "clear stream", after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asser
Asser (; ; died 909) was a Welsh monk from St David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by Alfred the Great to leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was recruiting for his court. After spending a year at Caerwent because of illness, Asser accepted. In 893, Asser wrote a biography of Alfred, called the ''Life of King Alfred''. The manuscript survived to modern times in only one copy, which was part of the Cotton library. That copy was destroyed in a fire in 1731, but transcriptions that had been made earlier, together with material from Asser's work which was included by other early writers, have enabled the work to be reconstructed. The biography is the main source of information about Alfred's life and provides far more information about Alfred than is known about any other early English ruler. Asser assisted Alfred in his translation of Gregory the Great's ''Pastoral Care'', and possibly with other work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ashton (historian)
Charles Ashton (1848 – 13 October 1899) was a Welsh (people), Welsh literary historian and bibliophile, born in Llawryglyn, Llawr-y-glyn, Montgomeryshire (Powys). A police officer by profession, Ashton is chiefly remembered for his pioneering and thorough survey of 17th to 19th century Welsh-language literature, Welsh literature, ''Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig o 1651 hyd 1850'', published in 1893. He also published a history of Dinas Mawddwy in 1892. Ashton committed suicide after attacking his wife with a razor in 1899. Works *''Bywyd ac Amserau yr Esgob Morgan'' (1891) *''Gweithiau Iolo Goch'' (1896) *''Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig 1650-1850'' (1893) *''Llyfryddiaeth y 19eg Ganrif'' (1908) References External linksCharles Ashton Letters and Newspaper Cuttings {{DEFAULTSORT:Ashton, Charles 19th-century Welsh writers Welsh-language writers 1848 births 1899 deaths 1890s suicides People from Montgomeryshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
