GRIFFITH, GRACE WYNNE (1888-1963), novelist;
b. Feb. 1888 in Newborough, Anglesey, daughter of Captain W.G. Roberts. Elizabeth Ann Williams, author of Hanes Môn yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg (1927) was her sister. She was educated in Caernarfon county school. In the early years of the 20th c. she was a nurse in Liverpool, and it was there that she met Griffith Wynne Griffith (see below); they were m. in 1914. She d. 1 May 1963. She came into prominence in 1934 when she shared a prize for a novel with Kate Roberts in the national eisteddfod at Neath, and it was published in 1935 under the title Creigiau Milgwyn — Kate Roberts’ novel was Traed mewn cyffion. Creigiau Milgwyn was reviewed by T.J. Morgan who thoroughly criticised the novel and roundly condemned the adjudicator (Dr. Tom Richards, see below) for awarding her the prize.
Bibliography:
- Y Llenor, 1936, 48-55;
- Dafydd Jenkins, Y Nofel (1948), 23;
- information from her son, Huw Wynne Griffith.
Author:
Rev. Gomer Morgan Roberts, M.A., (1904-93), Pont-rhyd-y-fen / St Dogmael's / Llandybïe
