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Margiad Evans (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Margiad Evans (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Series: Border Lines S.
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Loot Price R383
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Novelist, essayist, poet and writer of short stories, Margiad Evans
(1909-1959) was one of the most remarkable women writers of the
mid-twentieth century. Having published three novels, two
autobiographical works and two volumes of poetry during her life,
her relatively slim output belies considerable achievement in the
face of intermittent poverty and the illness of her later years.
(Aged forty-one, she was diagnosed epileptic, falling pregnant the
same year; she died of a brain tumour in 1959.) Evans's fiction has
been compred to that of the Bronte sisters, her poetry to W.H.
Davies and de la Mare. Her writing ranges from the balanced
symmetries of her debut novel A Country Dance, to Creed with its
'postmodern' authorial interventions and anticipation of
structuralism, through the meditations on creativity and divinity
contained in the Autobiography, to the coming-to-terms with
mortality that is A Ray of Darkness. Unifying this complex oeuvre,
however, is a concentration on certain key themes which resonate
strongly today. Foremost is Evans's ground-breaking depictions of
love, sex, illness and death in the lives and work of women
inhabiting harsh and restrictive rural environments. Her beloved
south Herefordshire borderland was inspirational in itself. And, as
her health deteriorated, so death, and its unquiet acceptance,
became central. In this, the fullest study to date, Ceridwen
Lloyd-Morgan draws on Margiad Evans's extensive personal and
literary archives to offer valuable, sympathetic, well-balanced
criticism of an important and highly individual woman writer whose
work retains its force, identity and freshness.
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