Turf or Stone (24 page)
Authors: Margiad Evans
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Margiad Evans (Peggy Whistler) was born in Uxbridge in 1909, and lived in the Border area in Ross-on-Wye. The border was central to her consciousness, and she adopted the Welsh nom de plume, Margiad Evans, out of a sense of identity with Wales. She attended Hereford School of Art, but although she continued to paint and draw until late in her life, writing displaced art as her primary work. In addition to
Country Dance
(1932), her novels include
The Wooden Doctor
(1933),
Turf or Stone
(1934) and
Creed
(1936). She also wrote numerous articles and short stories, some of which were collected in
The Old and the Young
(1948), and two collections of poetry,
Poems from Obscurity
(1947) and
A Candle Ahead
(1956). Her
Autobiography
was published in 1943 and
A Ray of Darkness
, an account of her experience with epilepsy, appeared in 1952. She died in 1958.
First published in 2010
by Parthian
The Old Surgery
Napier Street
Cardigan
SA43 1ED
www.parthianbooks.co.uk
www.libraryofwales.org
This ebook edition first published in 2011
Published with the financial support of the Welsh Books Council.
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Foreword © Deborah Kay Davies 2010
The right of Margiad Evans to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
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He Takes Me by the Shoulders
Peggy Whistler
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ISBN 9781908069283
| 1 | Ron Berry | So Long, Hector Bebb |
| 2 | Raymond Williams | Border Country |
| 3 | Gwyn Thomas | The Dark Philosophers |
| 4 | Lewis Jones | Cwmardy & We Live |
| 5 | Margiad Evans | Country Dance |
| 6 | Emyr Humphreys | A Man’s Estate |
| 7 | Alun Richards | Home to an Empty House |
| 8 | Alun Lewis | In the Green Tree |
| 9 | Dannie Abse | Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve |
| 10 | E d. Meic Stephens | Poetry 1900-2000 |
| 11 | E d. Gareth Williams | Sport: an anthology |
| 12 | Rhys Davies | The Withered Root |
| 13 | Dorothy Edwards | Rhapsody |
| 14 | Jeremy Brooks | Jampot Smith |
| 15 | George Ewart Evans | The Voices of the Children |
| 16 | Bernice Rubens | I Sent a Letter to My Love |
| 17 | Howell Davies | Congratulate the Devil |
| 18 | Geraint Goodwin | The Heyday in the Blood |
| 19 | Gwyn Thomas | The Alone to the Alone |
| 20 | Stuart Evans | The Caves of Alienation |
| 21 | Brenda Chamberlain | A Rope of Vines |
| 22 | Jack Jones | Black Parade |
| 23 | Alun Richards | Dai Country |
| 24 | Glyn Jones | The Valley, the City, the Village |
| 25 | Arthur Machen | The Great God Pan |
| 26 | Arthur Machen | The Hill of Dreams |
| 27 | Hilda Vaughan | The Battle to the Weak |
| 28 | Margiad Evans | Turf or Stone |
| 29 | Stead Jones | Make Room for the Jester |
