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Originally published in 1943, Margiad Evans’s Autobiography is not a conventional work of life writing. Rather it is an intimate portrait of the author’s inner life and an experiment in what she calls “earth writing”. According to Professor Diana Wallace, who has written a perceptive introduction to this new edition in the Welsh Women’s Classics series from Honno Press, “it explores in delicate and precise detail Evans’s intensely-felt, even mystical, relationship with the natural world”.
She married Michael Williams in 1940 and in the book he becomes “M-”, described as “the dear companion of my faulty nature and physique”. They moved into a cottage on a hill above Llangarran, west of Ross, with views across to the Welsh mountains. The typical Herefordshire landscape of rolling hills and meandering streams inspired some of her best work in prose, fiction and poetry.