Ann Harriet Hughes (1852 – 25 April 1910) was a

Welsh language Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has ...

novelist, under the pen-name Gwyneth Vaughan.

Life

Ann Harriet Hughes was born at

Talsarnau Talsarnau () or Talsamau is a village and community in the Ardudwy area of Gwynedd in Wales. Its population was 525 in 2001, and had increased to 550 at the 2011 Census. The village of Talsarnau is situated on the A496 coastal road between Ma ...

Merionethshire , HQ= Dolgellau , Government= Merionethshire County Council (1889-1974) , Origin= , Status= , Start= 1284 , End= , Code= MER , CodeName= ...

, the daughter of a miller, and had a basic school education at

Llandecwyn Llandecwyn () is a hamlet near Penrhyndeudraeth in Gwynedd, Wales. The bulk of the population (between 40 and 50 houses) is now located around Cilfor close to the A496 road and served by Llandecwyn railway station, with a cluster of under ten ...

. In 1876 she married John Hughes Jones, a doctor in

Clwt-y-bont Clwt-y-bont is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, lying just to the south of Deiniolen. The two villages form one urban unit. Both were built in the early 19th century to house workers in the Dinorwig slate quarry, and both suffered when the quarry was ...

, Caernarvon; they later dropped the "Jones" part of their surname. They lived in

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and later in

Treherbert Treherbert () is a village and community situated at the head of the Rhondda Fawr valley in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Historically part of Glamorgan, Treherbert is a former industrial coal mining village which was at its ec ...

and Clwt-y-bont. Left to bring up four children on her husband's death in 1902, she moved to

Bangor, Gwynedd Bangor (; ) is a cathedral city and community in Gwynedd, North Wales. It is the oldest city in Wales. Historically part of Caernarfonshire, it had a population of 18,322 in 2019, according to the Office for National Statistics. Landmark ...

, and took up writing as a career. Hughes completed three novels, and a left a fourth unfinished work. She also edited Welsh versions of three of the works of the Scottish evangelist Henry Drummond and wrote verse in Welsh. She edited the woman's page in the ''Welsh Weekly'' (1892), ''Yr Eryr'' (1894–95) ''Y Cymro'' (1906–07).

Death

Ann Harriet Hughes died on 25 April 1910 at

Pwllheli Pwllheli () is a market town and community of the Llŷn Peninsula ( cy, Penrhyn Llŷn) in Gwynedd, north-western Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011 of whom a large proportion, 81%, are Welsh speaking. Pwllheli is the place where Plaid ...

. She was buried in the graveyard of the

Llanfihangel-y-traethau Llanfihangel-y-traethau ("St. Michael's on the Beaches") was a parish in Ardudwy, Gwynedd, north-west Wales centred on a church of the same name in the village of Ynys. The original parish church was built in the 12th century on a tidal island. La ...

church.

Works

*''O Gorlannau'r Defaid'' (1905) *''Plant y Gorthrwm'' (1908) *''Cysgodau y Blynyddoedd Gynt'' (1908) *''Troad y Rhod'' (unfinished; partly published in the periodical ''Y Brython'', 1909).

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* * 1852 births 1910 deaths 19th-century Welsh people 19th-century Welsh women 20th-century Welsh novelists 20th-century Welsh women writers People from Merionethshire Welsh women novelists Welsh-language novelists Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century pseudonymous writers {{Wales-writer-stub