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Twentieth-Century Autobiography

Author(s) Barbara Prys-Williams

Paperback - £6.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Studies, Biography, Wales Studies

Series: Writing Wales in English

July 2004 · 224 pages ·216x138mm

· Paperback - 9780708318911

About the Book
About the Author(s)

The writing of good autobiography requires an encounter with oneself that can involve the need to wrestle with potent elements from one's past. This work on 20th-century Welsh autobiography in English traces the psychological influences which have shaped the consciousness and world views of seven authors, all by birth, or by adoption, Welsh

Author(s): Barbara Prys-Williams

Barbara Prys-Williams is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales at the University of Wales, Swansea where she gained a Ph.D. in English. She taught for some twenty years in schools in Britain and abroad. She has published widely on Welsh autobiography in English.