Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Literature
- L1/4
- File
- [1960]
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a draft of a speech, and a copy of part of a speech on Welsh and Anglo-Welsh literature, [1960].
Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Literature
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a draft of a speech, and a copy of part of a speech on Welsh and Anglo-Welsh literature, [1960].
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a draft of an untitled piece of work, [1940x1990].
Untitled 1 [Strike for a Kingdom]
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a draft copy of an untitled piece of creative writing, [c.1959], which was possibly a draft copy of her novel Strike for a Kingdom.
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This series contains typescript copies of Menna Gallie's translation of Un Nos Ola Leuad by Caradog Prichard, 1961, and four chapters of his autobiography Afal Drwg Adda, [c.1973].
Prichard, Caradog, 1904-1980
The Welshness of Pembrokeshire
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a draft of a piece of writing on Pembrokeshire under the title 'The Welshness of Pembrokeshire'[c.1974]. This was possibly a draft for the leaflet Menna Gallie published about Pembrokeshire, Little England's Other Half, (1974).
The Ulster Teachers of English
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of two versions of a speech on Menna Gallie's teaching experiences in Ulster, [c.1964x1990].
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of two versions of a speech about the arriving of the donkey that had been bought for Menna Gallie's daughter, whilst they were living in Northern Ireland, [c.1958]. One version is written in Welsh.
The Making of an Heiress (Man's Desiring)
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a draft copy of a novel under the title 'The Making of an Heiress', [c.1960], which was presumably later published under the title Man's Desiring (1960).
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a story entitled 'The Italian Bed', [1950x1990], which is the story of a shopkeeper in Ystradgynlais, told to Menna Gallie by her mother. An introduction to the story states also that the story was read for the BBC 'Morning Story' series.
The funeral of Elizabeth Rhys Humphreys
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of papers relating to the funeral of Menna Gallie's mother, Elizabeth Rhys Humphreys (1885-1974).
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a speech made on the Five Towns (Cinque Terre), at the southern end of the Italian Riviera, [1940x1990].
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of four drafts of a talk under the title 'The Fear of God', [c.1970], which describes Menna Gallie going back home, while she was living in Cambridge, and going to a Gymanfa Ganu.
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a lecture about the British social services, given whilst living in America, [c.1962].
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
The series consists of drafts of talks given by Menna Gallie to various societies on a number of subjects, [1940]-[1990], such as childhood memories, memories of Ystradgynlais, Creunant and the surrounding area, experiences in Northern Ireland, America and Cambridge, experiences gained whilst in Italy and Yugoslavia, and talks on her own writing.
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This series consists of a number of radio scripts of talks given by Menna Gallie, [c.1958]-[c.1969], on subjects such as her experiences of living in Northern Ireland, of writing her first novel, of being a guide in an old house in Ulster, of her experience of going down a coal mine, various memories of childhood, the writing of Mary Lavin, of her trip to Yugoslavia and experiences of her time spent in America.
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This group consists of the personal papers of Menna Gallie and includes papers relating to the death of her mother, family letters and other miscellaneous papers, 1935-1990.
Part of Menna Gallie Papers (Archif Menywod Cymru / Women's Archive of Wales),
This file consists of a speech given to the PEN society (a World Association of Writers) in Northern Ireland of her experiences as a delegate for Northern Ireland at a PEN conference in Bled, Slovenia (the former Yugoslavia), 1965. There is also a copy of an extract of this speech on Leonid Leonov.