Rediscovering Margiad Evans

This collection of essays rediscovers and reassesses the extraordinary literary legacy of the border writer, Margiad Evans (1909-48) - novelist, poet, short story writer and autobiographer.

This collection of essays rediscovers and reassesses the extraordinary literary legacy of the border writer, Margiad Evans (1909-48) - novelist, poet, short story writer and autobiographer.

1. Kirsti Bohata and Katie Gramich, Introduction2. Ceridwen Lloyd Morgan, The Archivist's Tale: primary sources for the study of Margiad Evans3. Diana Wallace, 'Two nations at war within it': marriage as metaphor in Margiad Evans's Country Dance4. Lucy Thomas, ‘Born to a million dismemberments’: female hybridity in the border writing of Margiad Evans, Hilda Vaughan and Mary Webb5. Katie Gramich, Gothic Borderlands: the hauntology of place in the fiction of Margiad Evans6. Tony Brown, Time, Memory and Identity in the Short Stories of Margiad Evans7. M. Wynn Thomas, Margiad Evans and Eudora Welty: a confluence of imaginations8. Kirsti Bohata, The Apparitional Lover: homoerotic and lesbian imagery in the writing of Margiad Evans’9. Andrew Larner, A ‘Herstory’ of Epilepsy in a Creative Writer: the case of Margiad Evans10. Karen Caesar, Warding off the Real: The recreation of self in Autobiography and A Ray of Darkness11. Clare Morgan, 'The Human Tune': Margiad Evans and the frustrating fifties12. Sue Asbee, ‘Not quite every character is a living person in this story. And not quite the reverse.’ Margiad Evans: Memory, fiction and autobiography13. Moira Dearnley, ‘Eternity is now my mood’: a view of the later writings of Margiad Evans