Rediscovering Margiad Evans : Marginality, Gender and Illness Paperback / softback
Edited by Kirsti Bohata, Katie Gramich
Part of the Gender Studies in Wales series
Paperback / softback
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Margiad wrote about the elderly, about love between women, about elusive, enigmatic characters. She is renowned for her ability to depict place, yet she also makes place reflective of the emotional and spiritual lives of her characters and her own concerns as an artist. Evans was a border writer, concerned with cultural complexity and conflict characteristic of borderlands, but also filled with passion for the landscape of the borders and the many meanings, local and figurative; she effortlessly invests in the places she loved.
Her life was transformed in later years by epilepsy, followed by the diagnosis of a brain tumour that lead to her early death, on the evening of her forty-ninth birthday, in 1958.
Evans wrote A Ray of Darkness, an acclaimed autobiography about her experience of epilepsy, and as a result Margiad Evans is being 'rediscovered' by the medical community as it becomes more interested in patient experiences.
This collection of essays assesses Evans's extraordinary literary legacy, from her use of folktale and the gothic to the influence of her epilepsy on her creative work.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2013
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- ISBN:9780708325605
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:28/02/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780708325605