A Ray of Darkness

by Margiad Evans, Jim Pratt (Introduction)

Overview

This autobiographical account from a courageous young novelist and poet of great promise, silenced too soon, is an enlightening example of writing on the experience of terminal illness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912905461
Publisher:	Honno Press
Publication date:	09/23/2021
Series:	Welsh Women's Classics , #31
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	346 KB

About the Author

Novelist, essayist, poet and writer of short stories, with a lifelong identification with the Welsh border country, Margiad Evans – the pseudonym of Peggy Eileen Whistler (1909-1958) – was one of the most remarkable women writers of the mid-twentieth century. She published four novels and was known for her brilliant descriptions of the natural world.
Born in London, Jim Pratt MBE was evacuated during WWII to Monmouth, close to the Llangarron home of his aunt Peggy (Margiad Evans.) He has transcribed several of Margiad Evans’ manuscripts, published essays on her work in New Welsh Review and others, as well as giving talks on her work and life. He transcribed, edited and introduced The Nightingale Silenced by Margiad Evans, also in the Welsh Women’s Classics series. He lives near Edinburgh.