Louisa Matilda Spooner, pseudonym L. M. S. (1820 – 5 December 1886), was a Welsh novelist.[1][2][3][4] She was born in Maentwrog and baptised on 24 March 1820, the daughter of railway engineer James Spooner and his wife Elizabeth.[5] She never married, and died in Portmadoc.
Her works include:
- Gladys of Harlech (1858)
- Country Landlords (1860)
- The Welsh Heiress: A Novel (1868)
In her novels, she focused largely on topics relating to Wales and from a Welsh perspective. In Gladys of Harlech, Spooner used the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses to discuss Welshness in its relation to the English crown.[6] In Country Landlords, she discussed landownership and republicanism in the nineteenth century, while The Welsh Heiress engages with the impact of alcoholism on farming communities.[7][8] All of her novels are set vaguely in Merionethshire, the area where she spent the majority of her life.
References edit
- ^ Evans, Cleveland Kent (9 October 2018). "Evans: From Welsh roots, Gladys has worked its way through the grapevine". omaha.com. Omaha World Herald. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- ^ "Author: Louisa Matilda Spooner". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "L.M. Spooner Books & Audiobooks". Everand. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ Singer, Rita (2017). "Gladys of Harlech and the Wars of the Roses". Porth Ymchwil Aberystwyth. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
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- ^ Singer, Rita (2015). Lindfield, Peter; Margrave, Christie (eds.). "Liberating Britain from Foreign Bondage: A Welsh Revision of the Wars of the Roses in L. M. Spooner's Gladys of Harlech; or, The Sacrifice (1858)". Rule Britannia?: 143–158.
- ^ Singer, Rita (2016-12-20). "Adapting the Risorgimento: Ideas of Liberal Nationhood in L. M. Spooner's Country Landlords (1860)". Women's Writing. 24 (4): 466–481. doi:10.1080/09699082.2016.1268342. ISSN 0969-9082.
- ^ Singer, Rita (2022). Re-inventing the Gwerin: Anglo-Welsh identities in fiction and non-fiction, 1847-1914 (Thesis). Leipzig Frankfurt am Main: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.