Introduction
Jane Aaron
1. Problems of Authorship and Attribution: The Welsh-language Women’s Canon Before 1800
Cathryn A. Charnell-White
2. Cambrian Bards and Antiquarian Romantics: Anglophone Women Poets from Eighteenth-Century Wales
Sarah Prescott
3. "Local and Contemporary": Reception, Community and the Poetry of Ann Julia Hatton ("Ann of Swansea")
Elizabeth Edwards
4. "At Once Illogical and Unfair": Jane Williams (Ysgafell) and the Government Report on Education in Mid Nineteenth-Century Wales
Gwyneth Tyson Roberts
5. Adapting the Risorgimento: Ideas of Liberal Nationhood in L. M. Spooner’s Country Landlords (1860)
Rita Singer
6. "Our Poor Land of Wales": National Identity and National Heroism in Women’s Historical Fictions
Diana Wallace
7. Welsh Women’s Industrial Fiction 1880–1910
Kirsti Bohata and Alexandra Jones
8. Gwyneth Vaughan, Eluned Morgan and the Emancipation of Welsh Women
Rosanne Reeves and Jane Aaron
Biography
Jane Aaron is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales, UK. Her publications include A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb (1991), Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg [Pure as Steel: The Welsh Woman in 19th Century Women's Literature] (1998), Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales (2007), and Welsh Gothic (2013). She is also the general editor of Honno Press’s Welsh Women’s Classics series.
