Jane Hughes (25 June 1811 - 26 April 1878) was a Welsh poet and hymnist. She wrote under the pen name Deborah Maldwyn.
Jane Hughes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 June 1811 |
| Died | 1878 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
Hughes was born in Pontrobert, Montgomeryshire on 25 June 1811 the third child to writer and Calvinist Methodist minister John Hughes and his wife, Ruth Evans, formerly a maid at Dolwar Fach, the home of Ann Griffiths, the hymn-writer. Jane Hughes was christened in her father's chapel, Capel Uchaf Pontrobert by a minister who had been ordained only the month before. Jane Hughes began writing in about 1846. Her parents died in the 1850s after which she began to travel around Wales. She followed Calvinistic Methodist meetings and sold her sheets of religious ballad to earn her living. Though she published a number of hymns they were not particularly successful. She became well known and had two collections of her works published in 1877. Hughes died in Porthmadog in 1878.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Works
edit- Llyfr Hymnau (Carmarthen, 1846)
- Galargan am y diweddar Barch. Henry Rees, Liverpool (Carmarthen, 1869)
- Yr Epha lawn o ymborth ysprydol i bererinion Seion (Caernarvon, 1877)
- Telyn y Cristion (Caernarvon, 1877), Penillion ar enwau a swyddau Iesu Grist (Carmarthen, n.d.)
- Cwyn a chysur y Credadyn (Cowbridge, 1889)
References
edit- ^ "HUGHES, JANE (Deborah Maldwyn; 1811 - 1878), hymnist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ "Y". Welsh Newspapers. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ Aaron, J. (2010). Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity. Gender Studies in Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-7083-2287-1. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ Jenkins, Kathryn (1997). "Literature since 1500". The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. 59: 617–621. doi:10.1163/22224297-90000198. JSTOR 25833050.
- ^ "Jane Hughes Pontrobert". Cylchgronau Cymru. 20. 1901. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ^ James, E. Wyn (2021). ""Montgomeryshire Worthies": biographical dictionary entries for John Davies (Tahiti), Ann Griffiths, and the Hughes family of Pontrobert". Cylchgrawn Hanes (Journal of the Historical Society of the Presbyterian Church of Wales). 45: 93-94