Stevie Davies
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Stevie Davies is an award-winning Welsh novelist. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Wales, Swansea, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
She was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for her novel, The Element of Water, which went on to win the 2002 Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year award. Her first novel, Boy Blue, had won the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1987, and her work has also been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also written a biography of the poet, Henry Vaughan.
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[edit] Novels
The Eyrie - Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2007
Kith & Kin — Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004
The Element of Water — The Women's Press 2001
'Impassioned Clay — The Women's Press 1999
The Web of Belonging — The Women's Press 1997
Four Dreamers and Emily' — The Women's Press 1996
Closing the Book — The Women's Press 1994
Arms and the Girl' — The Women's Press 1992
Primavera — The Women's Press 1990
Boy Blue — The Women's Press 1987
[edit] Non-fiction
A Century of Troubles: England 1600 - 1700 — Channel 4 Books 2001
Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution 1640 - 1660' — The Women's Press 1998
Emily Brontë — Writers and Their Work, New Series, Northcote House (in association with the British Council) 1998
Emily Brontë: Heretic' — The Women's Press 1994
Emily Brontë — Key Women Writers Series, Harvester Press 1988
Emily Brontë: The Artist as a Free Woman — Carcanet Press 1983
The Brontë Sisters: Selected Poems, Edited by Stevie Davies — Fyfield Series, Carcanet 1976
John Donne — Writers and their Work', New Series, Northcote House (in association with the British Council) 1994
Dreams and Other Aggravations: Selected Poems by Carla Lane, edited by Stevie Davies — Earth Ventures 2003
Milton — New Readings Series, Harvester Wheatsheaf 1991
Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton's Politics and Christian Liberty — University of Missouri Press 1983
The Idea of Woman in Renaissance English Literature: The Feminine Reclaimed — The Harvester Press 1986 Also published as: The Feminine Reclaimed: The Idea of Woman in Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton — The University Press of Kentucky 1986
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew — Penguin Critical Studies 1995
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night — Penguin Critical Studies 1993
Henry Vaughan — Seren Books, Border Lines Series 1995
Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse — Penguin Critical Studies 1989
Renaissance Views of Man — Literature in Context Series, Manchester University Press 1978
[edit] Short Stories
Woman Recumbent: Ghosts of the Old Year: New Welsh Short Fiction (an anthology representing the winners of the 2001 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition). Parthian (with the assistance of the Rhys Davies Trust), Cardigan 2003
Pod: Ghosts of the Old Year: New Welsh Short Fiction (an anthology representing the winners of the 2001 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition). Parthian (with the assistance of the Rhys Davies Trust), Cardigan 2003
Inside Out: The Gift: New Writing for the NHS, ed. David Morley. Stride (in association with Birmingham Health Authority), Exeter 2002
Mirrors: The Bridport Prize 2001: Poetry and Short Stories, selected by Kate Atkinson and Maura Dooley. Sansom & Company, Bristol 2001
Pips: New Welsh Review No. 52 Vol XIII/IV (Spring '01)
Documents: The Cambrensis Anthology, ed. Lewis Davies. Parthian, Cardiff 1999
My Father's Greatcoat: A Second Skin: Women Write about Clothes, ed. Kirsty Dunseath. The Women's Press, London 1998
The Testament of Catherine Vaughan: Scintilla, 2, ed. Anne Cluysenaar. Cardiff 1998
My Mistake: Feast! Women Write about Food, ed. Laurie Critchley & Helen Windrath. The Women's Press, London 1996
[edit] Articles
"Welsh Writers Against the War", New Welsh Review No. 61 (Autumn 2003) pp. 49-60
"Hearing Voices: From History via Fiction to Radio Drama", New Welsh Review No. 61 (Autumn 2003) pp. 23-34
"Sebald's Austerlitz: A Child of Llanwyddyn", New Welsh Review No. 55 Vol. XIV/III (Spring 2002) pp. 89-92
"The Pilgrimage of Anne Brontë: A Celebration of her Life and Work", Brontë Society Transactions Vol. 25 Pt 1 (April 2000)
"Reflections on the Poetry of Wuthering Heights", Brontë Society Transactions XXIII Pt 2 (October 1998) pp. 103-111
"Henry Vaughan: A Tercentennial Meditation", Brycheiniog XXVII (1994-1995) pp. 53-63
"Milton's Urania: The Meaning, Not the Name I Call", in collaboration with W. B. Hunter, Studies in English Literature 28 (1988) pp. 95-111
"Jane Eyre: Exile and Grace", Durham University Journal LXXVII (June 1985) pp. 223-227
"The Quest for the One: Eve and Narcissus in Paradise Lost", Studies in Mystical Literature (January 1983) pp. 1-17
"Triumph and Anti-Triumph: The Image of the Roman Emperor in Paradise Lost", Etudes Anglaises XXXIV Annee 4 (October - December 1981) pp. 385-398
"John Milton on Liberty", Memoirs & Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society 117 (1974 -1975) pp. 37-51
"History as Art: George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England", Critical Quarterly 16, No. 4 (Winter 1974) pp. 361-369
"An Analysis of John Milton's Paradise Lost I. 589-669", Critical Survey VI, Nos. 1 & 2 (Summer 1973) pp. 21-25
External link: Author's website
