Name: Woman on a Mission. Cranogwen in Victorian Wales
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Author: Jane Aaron
ISBN: 9781837723102

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Woman on a Mission. Cranogwen in Victorian Wales

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Author

Jane Aaron

Collection

Gender Studies in Wales

Year

2026

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.60 x 13.80 cm

ISBN13

9781837723102

Woman on a Mission. Cranogwen in Victorian Wales

Jane Aaron (Author) · University of Wales Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Woman on a Mission. Cranogwen in Victorian Wales"

During an age of extreme gender polarisation when women were confined to the domestic sphere, Sarah Jane Rees (1839–1916) from Llangrannog, better known by her bardic name Cranogwen, won high esteem as a poet, lecturer, journal editor, preacher and temperance campaigner. She also succeeded in her aim of inspiring other Welsh women to overcome class and gender barriers and enter the public sphere, and was hailed as a pioneering forerunner of the ‘New Woman’. This biographical volume follows her through the various stages of her career from early years as a sailor, showing how an underprivileged woman succeeded in winning such influential renown. New light is also thrown on her homosexual love life, and her progressive views on gender – ‘gender difference is nothing’, she proclaimed in 1888. The Welsh-language version of this volume, entitled Cranogwen, won the Wales Book of the Year award for creative non-fiction in 2024.