Amy Dillwyn
Autor David Paintingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2013
Born into one of Swansea’s most distinguished families, Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935) was a Welsh novelist who tackled complex class issues in her works. Following the deaths of her brother in 1890 and her father in 1892, Dillwyn inherited her father’s bankrupt business and, employing an aggressive management style, restored it to prosperity. In this biography, based largely on Dillwyn’s diaries, David Painting sheds light on this extraordinary woman of exceptional spirit and personality, revealing her to be not just a pioneering female British industrialist and novelist but also an ardent proponent of social justice.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780708326725
ISBN-10: 0708326722
Pagini: 120
Ilustrații: 17 halftones
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:New Updated Edition
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press
ISBN-10: 0708326722
Pagini: 120
Ilustrații: 17 halftones
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:New Updated Edition
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press
Notă biografică
David Painting was law librarian at Swansea University, UK, and honorary librarian of the Royal Institution of South Wales.
Cuprins
Foreword to the New Edition
Preface to the New Edition
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Selected Reading
Royal Prologue
Family Background
Early Years at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan
Debut into Society
Picking up the Threads
Mistress of Hendrefoilan
Charity begins at Killay
Society and Suitors
Moral Amazons
Amy in the Literary World
Catastrophe and Salvation
The Celebrity
Grand Old Lady
Epilogue
Index
Preface to the New Edition
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Selected Reading
Royal Prologue
Family Background
Early Years at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan
Debut into Society
Picking up the Threads
Mistress of Hendrefoilan
Charity begins at Killay
Society and Suitors
Moral Amazons
Amy in the Literary World
Catastrophe and Salvation
The Celebrity
Grand Old Lady
Epilogue
Index
Recenzii
“This reissue of David Painting’s 1987 biography of a remarkable Victorian woman is in itself remarkable for being a document of its time. . . . Amy Dillwyn evokes with significant skill the ethos of the age that bred the woman, and in its detailed familial, social, and political discussions can still count as a ‘touchstone’ for subsequent exploration of her life and work.”
“Dillwyn’s was a fascinating life.”
“One of the most remarkable women in Welsh history.”
“[A] thoroughly readable and entertaining account of a quite remarkable Victorian gentlewoman.”
“[Amy Dillwyn] offer[s] the reader a remarkably strong sense of Dillwyn’s own voice through quotations from her diaries. Painting’s discussion of his subject’s deep religiosity is illuminating. Even more skillful is his consideration of Dillwyn’s philanthropy from which his subject emerges as someone who possessed a profound and unsentimental compassion for those she sought to help.”