Amy Dillwyn

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A biography of Amy Dillwyn (1845-1935), based largely on her diaries, novelist and extraordinary woman of exceptional spirit and personality born into one of Swansea's most distinguished families, who inherited her father's bankrupt business but learnt to make her way in a man's world.

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Title Statements

Full title :Amy Dillwyn / by David Painting.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:New edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Wales Press
Place of Publication:Cardiff
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (130 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780708326794, 070832679X, 9781783161102, 1783161108
oclc:ocn868007932
LC Classification:PR4599.D47
Dewey Decimal:823.8

Cover; Rear Cover; Contents; 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; Picture Section; Society and Suitors; Moral Amazons; Amy in the Literary World; Catastrophe and Salvation; The Celebrity; Grand Old Lady; Epilogue; Index.

Subjects

Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Dillwyn, E. A., (Elizabeth Amy) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Novelists, Welsh Novelists, Welsh -- Biography. -- 19th …