Eluned Morgan (author)
Eluned Morgan (20 March 1870 – 29 December 1938), was a Welsh-language author from Patagonia.
Born aboard the ship Myfanwy en route from Britain to Patagonia in South America, she was the daughter of Lewis Jones who gave his name to the city of Trelew, in Chubut, Argentina. She was partly educated in Wales, and worked for a time in Cardiff Central Library until her final return to Patagonia in 1918.
She wrote numerous articles on Y Wladfa (the Welsh Settlement in Patagonia) for Welsh periodicals such as Cymru, edited by Owen Morgan Edwards, but is chiefly remembered for her two travel books, Dringo'r Andes (1904), about a journey across country from the Welsh Settlement to the Andes, and Gwymon y Môr (1909), about a sea voyage from Britain to Patagonia. She also wrote a book on the history of the Incas, Plant yr Haul (1915).
Bibliography
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Books
- Dringo'r Andes (1. Y Brodyr Owen, Abergavenny, 1904; 2. Southall & Co., Newport, 1907; 3. Southall & Co., 1909; 4. Southall & Co., 1917; 5. Southall & Co. n.d.)
- Gwymon y Môr (Y Brodyr Owen, Abergavenny, 1909)
- Ar Dir a Môr (Y Brodyr Owen, Abergavenny, 1913)
- Plant yr Haul (1. Evans & Williams, Cardiff, 1915; 2. Southall & Co., 1921; 3. Southall & Co., 1926)
Further reading
- R. Bryn Williams (ed.), Eluned Morgan[:] Bywgraffiad a Detholiad (Clwb Llyfrau Cymraeg, 1948). Edited selection of her work plus lengthy biography.
- Meic Stephens (ed.), Companion to the Literature of Wales (University of Wales Press).
- E. Wyn James, ‘Plentyn y Môr: Eluned Morgan a’i Llyfrau Taith’, Taliesin, 148 (2013), 66-81. ISSN 0049-2884.
- E. Wyn James, ‘Eluned Morgan and the “Children of the Sun” ’, in Los Galeses en la Patagonia VI, ed. Marcelo Gavirati & Fernando Coronato (Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina: Asociación Punta Cuevas, Asociación Cultural Galesa de Puerto Madryn & Centro de Estudios Históricos y Sociales de Puerto Madryn, 2014), 249-65. ISBN 978-987-24577-5-4.
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