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From: "dave hanson" <>
Subject: Re: [Cmn-L] Richard Vaughan
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:04:18 -0000
In-Reply-To: <001e01c2cbc5$b34a9300$1eb04c51@t5c7s4>


Hello Anne,

Thanks for the comments and I couldn't agree more about the Black
Mountains. I'm lucky enough to see them in the distance every day on
the way to work.

I'm sure you'll enjoy the Carmarthenshire Anthology; I bought mine in
1984, there's so much in it you'll always find something you missed
previously.

Good luck with finding something by Richard Vaughan (Ernest Thomas)
but look for the titles I mentioned as there are other authors with the
same name!

Dave



> Hello Dave
>
> Thank you for the info about Richard Vaughan. I will seek him out, I am
> ashamed to say that I had not heard of him before. There is something
> magical about the Black Mountain area. It is arguably the most spectacular
> part of the Beacon Beacons National Park yet the least visited. Just about
> to order my copy of the Carmarthenshire Anthology - reassured by your
> positive comment.
>
> Anne
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dave hanson" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 9:49 PM
> Subject: [Cmn-L] Richard Vaughan
>
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > The recent mail about Alexander Cordell's work and the photographs of
> > the Black Mountains just posted by Janie have prompted a mention of
> > the novels written by Carmarthenshire author Ernest Thomas under the
> > name 'Richard Vaughan'.
> >
> > Most are set below the Black Mountains around Llangadog,
> > Llanddeusant and Myddfai in north eastern Carmarthenshire. Richard
> > Vaughan's powerful descriptive style was very favourably reviewed in the
> > 1950's when the books were published and a literary critic recently rated
> > his work as some of the best of its time alongside other Welsh writers
> > such as Dylan Thomas.
> >
> > His first books are placed in late Victorian times and apart from working
> > into the stories some wonderfully detailed descriptions of the everyday
> > life of a rural Welsh agricultural community at home and in the fields, he
> > mentions many of the local customs such as the rope held across the
> > road to hold up a wedding party and firing of guns in the fields to mark
> > their progress (occasionally still observed in CMN).
> >
> > He lived in Talley, CMN, in the later part of his life and was a neighbour
> > of ours when we came here 26 years ago. Copies of his books (long out
> > of print now) of which I think 'Moulded in Earth' was the first and many
> > say, the best, often appear on secondhand book sites on the internet.
> > Others include 'Who Rideth so Wild', 'Son of Justin' which follows on the
> > story from Moulded in Earth, 'All through the Night', and 'There is a
> River'
> > which though a novel is also an autobiography set in Thomas' boyhood
> > in Llanddeusant.
> >
> > If you have a copy of Lynn Hughes' excellent 'Carmarthenshire
> > Anthology' (which has just been reprinted), three passages from
> > 'Moulded in Earth' are included.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dave Hanson
> > Talley, CMN
> >
> >
> >
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