Margiad Evans FROM THE PUBLISHER
Margiad Evans (1909-1959), novelist, essayist, poet, was one of the most remarkable women writers of the mid-twentieth century. Faced with life-long poverty and illness in her later years, she wrote three novels, short stories (see page 5), two books of poetry, and two autobiographical works, including Ray of Darkness, which has become a classic book about the effects of epilepsy, from which she suffered.
Evans' fiction has been compared to that of the Bronte sisters, and her poetry to de la Mare. Her work is especially appreciated today because of her ground-breaking depiction of love, sex, illness, and death in the lives and work of women inhabitating harsh and restrictive rural environments. Ceridwin Lloyd-Morgan who works at the National Library of Wales draws on Evans' extensive personal and literary archives to offer a valuable, sympathetic, and well-balanced study of this highly individual writer whose work retains its force, identity, and freshness today.
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