HUGHES
,
ANNIE HARRIET
(
Gwyneth Vaughan
,
1852
-
1910
),
writer
;
b. at
Bryn-y-felin
,
Talsarnau, Mer.
, daughter of
Bennet
Jones
,
miller
; educated at
Llandecwyn school
. In
1876
she m.
John Hughes
Jones
, a
physician
, of
Clwt-y-Bont, Caern.
, but the surname Jones was dropped. She lived at one time or another in
London
, at
Treherbert
, and, until the death of her husband in
1902
, at
Clwt-y-bont
. She then moved to
Bangor
and, in spite of her poverty, gave her four children the best possible education; further, she took a most active part in public life. She d. at
Pwllheli
25 April 1910
and was buried (
29 April
) at
Llanfihangel y Traethau
. She wrote four novels:
O Gorlannau'r Defaid
,
1905
;
Plant y Gorthrwm
,
1908
;
Cysgodau y Blynyddoedd Gynt
(in
Y Brython
,
1907-8
); and
Troad y Rhod
(unfinished — in
Y Brython
,
1909
). She edited
Welsh
versions of three of
Henry
Drummond
's works:
The Greatest Thing in the World
;
The City without Foundations
; and ‘
The Christian Programme
’ (unpublished). From
1897
onward, much of her work in prose and verse is to be found in
Cymru (O.M.E.)
.
Yr Haul
,
Perl y Plant
,
Cymru'r Plant
,
Y Genhinen
,
Papur Pawb
,
Y Cymro
,
Celtia
,
Celtic Review
,
Young Wales
, etc.; she
edited the women's page
in
Yr Eryr
,
1894-5
,
Y Cymro
,
1906-7
, and the
Welsh Weekly
,
1892
.
Author:
Rev. Richard Bryn Williams, M.A., (1902-81), Rhuthyn / Aberystwyth
