FOULKES
,
ANNIE
(
1877
-
1962
),
editor of an anthology
;
b.
24 Mar. 1877
at
Llanberis, Caerns.
Her father,
Edward
Foulkes
(
1850
-
1917
), was an official at
Dinorwig slate quarry
, a man of wide literary culture and
author of a number of articles in Welsh periodicals on 19th-c. English writers
:
Robert Williams
Parry
(see below)
wrote a sonnet in memory of him. She was educated at
Dr. Williams' School
,
Dolgellau
, and at
College de Jeunes Filles
in
Saumur
,
France
,
1896-97
. She was a
French teacher
at
Bray
,
Co. Wicklow
,
1897
, at
Tregaron county school
,
1898-1905
, and
Barry county school
,
1905-18
. In
1918
she was appointed
Executive Secretary of the Appointments Board
of the
University of Wales
, to succeed
Robert Silyn
Roberts
(
DWB
, 878-9)
. At
Barry
she was a
member of a literary circle
which formed around
Thomas
Jones
,
C.H.
(see below)
and
Silyn
— the group behind the establishment of
The Welsh Outlook
.
Thomas
Jones
believed there was a need for an anthology of modern
Welsh
poetry and suggested that
Annie
Foulkes
should edit it. The anthology appeared in
1918
under the title
Telyn y dydd
, as one of the volumes of the series ‘
Cyfres yr Enfys
’. It became very popular, particularly in schools — a fourth edition was published in
1929
.
Annie
Foulkes
d. unmarried at
Caernarfon
12 Nov. 1862
aged 85 yrs.
Bibliography:
-
The papers of Annie Foulkes and her father at Bangor College Library (
Bangor Manuscripts at University College North
Wales Library, Bangor
16040-16410, 16590-16668);
-
Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald
, 1832
ff
,
16 and 23 Nov. 1962
(under Caernarfon).
Author:
Bedwyr Lewis Jones (1933-92), Bangor
