Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Caradoc Evans
Standard Name: Evans, Caradoc
Connections
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death | Hélène Barcynska | She was buried on 13 March in the same grave with Caradoc Evans
at Horeb Chapel, next door to their former home. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | HB
married the Welsh writer and journalist (David) Caradoc Evans
, with whom she had already been living. She says they married a year after Armiger Barclay
died. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Barcynska, Hélène. Full and Frank: The Private Life of a Woman Novelist. Hurst and Blackett, 1941. 119 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Hélène Barcynska | (David) Caradoc Evans
, writer, journalist, and second husband of HB
, died following an aneurysm, angina, and heart attack. Barcynska, Hélène. Caradoc Evans. Hurst and Blackett, 1946. prelims, 20, 24 |
Friends, Associates | Mary Webb | MW
was a friend of critic Adrian Bury
and was close to Welsh writer and critic Caradoc Evans
, who met her in London and in whom she confided her hopes and fears. His widow's... |
Literary responses | Mary Webb | MW
's friend Caradoc Evans
(who called her the greatest living woman novelist and understood how hungry she was for success) recorded her envy of an unnamed countryside woman novelist who was savouring her own... |
Literary responses | Hélène Barcynska | Caradoc Evans
(who, HB
wrote, was always handing her bouquets) called this book the genuine stuff. Barcynska, Hélène. Caradoc Evans. Hurst and Blackett, 1946. 11 |
Occupation | Hélène Barcynska | As well as devoting steady time and effort to her writing, HB
founded a theatre company which she called Rogues and Vagabonds Repertory Players
, because she discovered the Welsh theatre culture and thought they... |
Publishing | Mary Webb | Before writing her novels, MW
reviewed books for the Liverpool Post, and Caradoc Evans
placed two articles by her in the evening paper The Star. Barcynska, Hélène. Caradoc Evans. Hurst and Blackett, 1946. 80 |
Reception | Mary Webb | Reviewers included MW
's friend Caradoc Evans
. Barcynska, Hélène. Caradoc Evans. Hurst and Blackett, 1946. 80 |
Textual Features | Hélène Barcynska | She used as epigraph for her biography some lines from Lucretius
about spiritual journeying. She begins with the death of Caradoc Evans
and moves back to her account of his life, which purports to owe... |
Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | |
Textual Production | Hélène Barcynska | Years later HB
was moved to write an autobiographical article of 12,000 words to refute something similar by Armiger Barclay
in which he claimed to be the author of The Honey-Pot. It was through... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hélène Barcynska | She writes evocatively here of her childhood in India, and closes on instances of the uncanny in Wales and some spiritual experiences of her own which for her contradict absolutely the real existence of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hélène Barcynska | This book, illustrated with further photographs, traces the continuing connection, unbroken by his death, between herself and her second husband
. The title was contributed by their friend George Green
. Barcynska, Hélène. Unbroken Thread. Rider, 1948. 57 |
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