Rhys Davies - Osborne, Huw Edwin (University of Wales Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-141) and index
Rhys Davies was a seminal influence in Welsh writing because he was one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales, and was a highly prolific writer producing some twenty novels and one hundred short stories in a career that spanned six decades. Some of his best known titles are The Withered Root (1927), The Black Venus (1944), The Perishable Quality (1957) and his autobiography, Print of a Hare?s Foot (1969)
Little Lord Fauntleroy of the Valleys -- 'A rainbow wash of the mind' -- A bohemian in Grub Stree -- A 'professional Welshman' -- A 'natural amusing greed' -- A curious friendliness among the men -- 'The raw stuff of life' -- 'Time and theWelsh mountains' -- Strange embraces' and 'subtle pagan secrets' -- 'One's own interior liberty' -- 'Down with passports to art' -- Dealing in dark murders -- A 'borderline case'