Amy Dillwyn
Distributed for University of Wales Press
120 pages
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17 halftones
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 1987
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword to the New Edition
Preface to the New Edition
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Selected Reading
Royal Prologue
Family Background
Early Years at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan
Debut into Society
Picking up the Threads
Mistress of Hendrefoilan
Charity begins at Killay
Society and Suitors
Moral Amazons
Amy in the Literary World
Catastrophe and Salvation
The Celebrity
Grand Old Lady
Epilogue
Index
Review Quotes
Clare Morgan | Times Literary Supplement
“This reissue of David Painting’s 1987 biography of a remarkable Victorian woman is in itself remarkable for being a document of its time. . . . Amy Dillwyn evokes with significant skill the ethos of the age that bred the woman, and in its detailed familial, social, and political discussions can still count as a ‘touchstone’ for subsequent exploration of her life and work.”
Victorian Studies
“Dillwyn’s was a fascinating life.”
Western Mail
“One of the most remarkable women in Welsh history.”
Welsh History Review
“[A] thoroughly readable and entertaining account of a quite remarkable Victorian gentlewoman.”
New Welsh Review
“[Amy Dillwyn] offer[s] the reader a remarkably strong sense of Dillwyn’s own voice through quotations from her diaries. Painting’s discussion of his subject’s deep religiosity is illuminating. Even more skillful is his consideration of Dillwyn’s philanthropy from which his subject emerges as someone who possessed a profound and unsentimental compassion for those she sought to help.”
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