Allen Raine
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Allen Raine was the pseudonym of the Welsh novelist Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe (6 October 1836 – 21 June 1908), who was born in Newcastle Emlyn. Her novels had sold more than two million copies by 1912.Template:Sfn
Life
She was born Anne Adalisa Evans in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, the eldest daughter of a lawyer, Benjamin Evans, and Letitia Grace Evans, his wife,Template:Sfn whose father was a lawyer and the grandson of David Davis (1745–1827). Allen Raine's mother was also the granddaughter of Daniel Rowland.Template:Sfn
In 1849, she was sent to be educated with the family of a Unitarian minister, Henry Solly, at Cheltenham. Family friends included literati such as George Eliot, Mrs Henry Wood, and Bulwer-Lytton. She later lived in the suburbs of London with her sister Lettie.[1] In her youth she contributed to a short-lived periodical called Home Sunshine, which was produced by friends, the Leslie family, and printed at Newcastle Emlyn.Template:Sfn
Marital life
Returning to Wales in 1856, she married the banker Beynon Puddicombe at Penbryn Church, Tresaith, Cardiganshire, on 10 April 1872. He was the foreign correspondent of Smith Payne's Bank, London. They lived in the London area until February 1900, when her husband became mentally ill. They then retired to Bronmôr, their summer house in Tresaith until his death in 1906. He died on 29 May and was buried at Penbryn Church.[1]
She remained in Tresaith until her death on 21 June 1908.Template:Sfn[1]
Works
A fictionalised version of coastal Cardiganshire features largely in each of her novels and the majority of her short stories.[2][3]Template:Sfn
In 1897, she published a literary translation of Ceiriog's long poem 'Alun Mabon' in serial form in O. M. Edwards's magazine Wales.
- Ynysoer (National Eisteddfod winner, 1894)
- A Welsh Singer (1896)
- Torn Sails (1897)
- By Berwen Banks (1899)
- Garthowen (1900)
- A Welsh Witch (1902, republished by Honno Classics, 2013)
- On the Wings of the Wind (1903)
- Hearts of Wales (1905)
- Queen of the Rushes (1906, republished by Honno Classics, 1998)
- Neither Storehouse nor Barn (1908)
- All in a Month (short story collection; 1908)
- Where Billows Roll (originally Ynysoer, Eisteddfod winner 1894)
- Under the Thatch (unfinished at death, completed by Lyn Evans in 1910)
Films
- Torn Sails (1915)
- A Welsh Singer (starring Florence Turner 1915) and By Berwen Banks (1920)
Notes
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References
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- Sally Roberts Jones, Allen Raine, 1979
- Katie Gramich, Twentieth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007.
External links
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- 1836 births
- 1908 deaths
- 19th-century Welsh novelists
- 20th-century Welsh novelists
- 19th-century Welsh women writers
- 20th-century Welsh women writers
- People from Carmarthenshire
- Welsh short story writers
- Welsh women short story writers
- Welsh women novelists
- 19th-century British short story writers
- Pseudonymous women writers
- 19th-century pseudonymous writers
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers