Jane Hughes (poet)

Jane Hughes (25 June 1811 - 1880) was a Welsh poet and hymnist. She wrote under the pen name Deborah Maldwyn.

Jane Hughes
Born25 June 1811
Pontrobert
Died1878
Porthmadog
NationalityUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Hughes was born in Pontrobert, Powys on 25 June 1811 the third child to writer and Calvinist minister John Hughes and his wife, maid Ruth Evans. Hughes was baptised in her fathers chapel, Capel Uchaf Pontrobert by the recent minister who had been ordained only the month before. Ruth worked for the hymn-writer Ann Griffiths at Dolwar Fach. Hughes began writing in about 1846. Hughes parents died in the 1850s after which she began to travel around Wales. She followed Methodist meetings and sold her religious ballad sheets to earn her living. Though she published a number of hymns they were not particularly successful, often being too long and heavy for singing. Hughes also published her poems on these sheets. She became well known and had two collections of her works published in 1877. Hughes died in Porthmadog in 1880.[1][2][3][4][5]

Works
  • 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)
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References
  1. "HUGHES, JANE (Deborah Maldwyn; 1811 - 1878), hymnist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  2. "Y". Welsh Newspapers. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  3. 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 2020-01-21.
  4. Jenkins, Kathryn (1997). "Literature since 1500". The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. 59: 617–621. doi:10.1163/22224297-90000198. JSTOR 25833050.
  5. "Jane Hughes Pontrobert". Cylchgronau Cymru. 20. 1901. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
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