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Dorothy Edwards

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New Welsh Review

I first came across Dorothy Edwards in Jane Aaron's edited anthology A View Across the Valley: short stories by women from Wales c.1850–1950 (Honno, 1999). Intrigued as to the background of the author who had produced ‘The Conquered’, with its border tensions, imperial references and naive yet arrogant male narrator, I turned to the biographical notes and was surprised to learn that the author was, like myself, from Ogmore Vale. I dismissed this as an error – the former mining valley of Ogmore V

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Rhapsody (Library of Wales)

Rhapsody reviews on goodreads.com

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Book Launch for Biography of Unsung Welsh Literary Heroine

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Dorothy Edwards

Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Dorothy Edwards.

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The Death of Dorothy Edwards

Babylon Wales: The Death of Dorothy Edwards

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Welcome to the School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Bangor University

Lucy Stevenson, "Two Drafts of an Unpublished Story by Dorothy Edwards"

Swansea University

Essex University

Welsh Culture

Creative Writing Course

This course explores Welsh women’s writing in a range of contexts. We will question and explore the legitimacy of reading and organizing literary texts along lines of gender, will ask whether there is a distinctive form of Welsh women’s writing, and interrogate the ways in which forms of feminism have interacted with other cultural forces and political ideologies (eg. class, nationalism, language) in Wales. Two classes will be devoted to each of the following topics.