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
; 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
)
for awarding her the prize.
Bibliography:
-
Y Llenor
,
1936
, 48-55;
-
Dafydd Jenkins
,
Y Nofel datblygiad y nofel Gymraeg ar ôl
Daniel Owen
, Cardiff, 1948
(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
