Kate Roberts

Klappentext Kate Roberts (1891-1985) is unquestionably the most important woman writer to have emerged from Wales! but she remains little known outside the region. This volume tracks Roberts's life from her poverty-stricken childhood through her time as a teacher in the South Wales valleys and her novel-writing and later political work. It will serve as both an introduction to her work for readers who are unable to read it in the original Welsh! and as a valuable critical aid for Welsh students and pupils who encounter her work in courses and Welsh language and literature. Zusammenfassung Presents an introduction to the life and work of Kate Roberts! the most important woman writer ever to have emerged from Wales. This book offers an account of her life! from her birth into a life of poverty and hardship in the slate-quarrying region of Snowdonia to her death almost a hundred years later in Denbigh.

Product details

• Authors: Katie Gramich
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780708323380
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2338-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Writers of Wales; Writers of Wales
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies