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Kate Roberts
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Kate Roberts
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Kate Roberts
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Kate Roberts
Roberts is widely acknowledged as the major twentieth-century novelist and short story writer to have written in the Welsh language, being known and revered in Wales as 'the Queen of our Literature'. Much of her work has been translated into English and other languages and yet she remains today relatively little known and under-appreciated in comparison, for example, with other female contemporaries who wrote in English, such as Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and Elizabeth Bowen. This volume seeks to redress the balance, bringing the life and work of this extraordinary novelist, playwrig.
Tea in the Heather
Eight stories focusing on a girl's childhood in the slate-quarrying district of Nantlle in North Wales by the foremost Welsh storywriter of the twentieth century. Foreword by Derec Llwyd Morgan. First edition published in 1968.
The World of Kate Roberts
Kate Roberts (1891-1985) was the foremost twentieth-century prose writer in the Welsh language. She produced a considerable body of fiction, seven novels and novellas and nine collections of short stories, and was active in the Welsh Nationalist Party as a publisher and a literary and political journalist. A contemporary of D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, and Sherwood Anderson, she created the modern form of the short story in Welsh, and through six decades of writing earned a place with this century's masters of the genre.The World of Kate Robertsoffers in English a large selection of stories, many previously, untranslated, that span her long writing career. Joseph P. Clancy's translat...
Feet in Chains
Snowdonia, 1880, and Jane Gruffydd is a newcomer to the district, dressed to the nines and almost fainting in the heat of the prayer meeting out on the mountainside. In the pages of this classic 1936 novel, we see the passionate and headstrong Jane grow up and grow old, struggling to bring up a family of six children on the pittance earned by her slate-quarrying husband, Ifan.
One Bright Morning
"Set in North Wales during the Great War, Tegwch y Bore tells the poignant story of a young teacher, Ann Owen, and of her relationship with her family - and with her brother especially; relationships wthat she is forced to re-examine in the light of her love-affair with Richard Edmwnd. It is a novel where the ugly storm clouds of war and death contend continuously with the bright beauty of life itself."--BOOK JACKET.
DIY Literacy
"We have never seen teachers work harder than we do now. These tools inspire kids to work as hard as we are." -Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts What's DIY Literacy? It's making your own visual teaching tools instead of buying them. It's using your teaching smarts to get the most from those tools. And it's helping kids think strategically so they can be DIY learners. "Teaching tools create an impact on students' learning," write Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts. "They help students hold onto our teaching and become changed by the work in the classroom." Of course, you and your students need the right tools for the job, so first Kate and Maggie share four simple, visual tools tha...
Toys of the 50s, 60s and 70s
"Toys from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s capture the joy of play and the pure fun of being a kid. But beneath those iconic names are rich veins of nostalgia, memory, and history. These toys--and the stories of the kids, parents, child-rearing experts, inventors, manufacturers, and advertisers they affected--reflect the dynamism of American life"--
