Woman on a Mission

Cranogwen in Victorian Wales

Jane Aaron (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2026
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-83772-310-2 (ISBN)

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During an age of extreme gender polarisation when women were confined to the domestic sphere, Sarah Jane Rees (1839–1916) from Llangrannog, better known by her bardic name Cranogwen, won high esteem as a poet, lecturer, journal editor, preacher and temperance campaigner. She also succeeded in her aim of inspiring other Welsh women to overcome class and gender barriers and enter the public sphere, and was hailed as a pioneering forerunner of the ‘New Woman’. This biographical volume follows her through the various stages of her career from early years as a sailor, showing how an underprivileged woman succeeded in winning such influential renown. New light is also thrown on her homosexual love life, and her progressive views on gender – ‘gender difference is nothing’, she proclaimed in 1888.

The Welsh-language version of this volume, entitled Cranogwen, won the Wales Book of the Year award for creative non-fiction in 2024.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 ‘Daughter of the Rock’
2 ‘Daughter of the Sea’
3 The Poet
4 The Public Lecturer
5 The Transatlantic Traveller
6 ‘My Friend’
7 The Editor and her Contributors
8 The Agony Aunt
9 The Evangelist
10 The Temperance Leader
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.6.2026
Reihe/Serie	Gender Studies in Wales
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-83772-310-9 / 1837723109
ISBN-13	978-1-83772-310-2 / 9781837723102
Zustand	Neuware