Creed:

"Creed was published in 1936 and was Margiad Evans's fourth and final novel. Set in Chepsford, a fictional industrial border town characterised by drunkenness and brawls, it takes suffering as its subject matter. Domesticity is upset by strong opinions on love and sin, while notions of rel...

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Main Author: Evans, Margiad 1909-1958 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dinas Powys, Wales Honno 2018
Series:Welsh women's classics
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Summary:"Creed was published in 1936 and was Margiad Evans's fourth and final novel. Set in Chepsford, a fictional industrial border town characterised by drunkenness and brawls, it takes suffering as its subject matter. Domesticity is upset by strong opinions on love and sin, while notions of religion and fate, debated with passionate intensity, have profound effects on the characters' lives. At the same time as Evans draws a compelling portrait of Chepsford's violence and dissipation, her interest in the very process of writing and the possibilities and limitations of language are also inscribed in the novel. Her fiction is the result of 'translating what I have learnt into scribbled words on thin paper, pinned together with ordinary pins from a pink card'."
"Margiad Evans (1909-1959) was born Peggy Eileen Whistler in Uxbridge, but found her spiritual home on a visit to the Welsh border country near Ross-on-Wye when she was nine years old. She spent her adolescence and early married life in the area where her four novels were set [...]."
Item Description:Originally published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford in 1936
Physical Description:xix, 179 Seiten 19 cm
ISBN:9781909983724
1909983721

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