Welsh Women's Classics: Spring's Green Shadow

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Nofel yn portreadu gwraig ifanc na chafodd gyfle i dderbyn addysg ac sy'n wynebu dyfodol mewn 'priodas dda', yn ystod y blynyddoedd yn dilyn colledion y Rhyfel Mawr. Mae'r arwres wedi'i seilio, yn fras, ar yr awdures ei hun. Datblygodd Cecily Mackworth yn newyddiadurwraig deithiol a enillodd barch, ac adroddodd hefyd am newidiadau gwleidyddol a hanesyddol mawr canol yr 20fed ganrif.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The heroine is closely based on the experiences of the author herself – Mackworth became a well-travelled and respected journalist and author who reported on huge political and historical change.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Cecily Mackworth was born in Monmouthshire in 1911, to a Welsh military family. She studied journalism at the London School of Economics. She spent time in Hungary and Germany, witnessing the escalation of tensions in Berlin in 1933, before settling in Paris in 1936. Forced to flee in 1940, she worked briefly for the Free French in London during the war. Her first major writing success detailed her escape from the Nazi advance, I Came out of France (1941). After the war she wrote studies of the poets Francois Villon (1947) and Guillaume Apollinaire (1967). She was one of two female journalists working in Palestine at the time of the birth of Israel, and published a book about the experience, The Mouth of the Sword, in 1949. Her book, The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt, was published in 1954. There were two novels, Spring’s Green Shadow (1952) and Lucy’s Nose (1992), and a travel memoir, Ends of the World (1987), as well as an unpublished autiobiography, Out of the Black Mountains, completed several months before her death in 2006. Editor biog : Angela V. John is a biographical historian and an Honorary Professor at Swansea University.. Her most recent publications include: Rocking the Boat: Welsh Women who Championed Equality 1840-1990 and The Actors’ Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Laura Gethryn spends the first seven years of her life in the shadow of the Black Mountains. Her horsey mother idolizes her absent soldier husband and his return a broken man, emasculated by the Great War, leaves them destined to remain the disappointed parents of a single girl child. Caught up in the dance of dysfunction that is their marriage, they hand over Laura’s education to Mr Howells, a very different man to Gethryn. Welsh-speaking, working-class and intellectual, he, his talented daughter, Mair, and disaffected son, Idris, open Laura’s eyes to a surprising new world, one that will take her to Paris. Years later, Laura receives a package: Mr Howell’s Parisian notebooks detailing his failure to escape the chains of his upbringing. Reading them, destroying them, may be the biggest service she does to both her mentor and her future self.