List Of Writers

WILLIAMS, MERRYN

Merryn Williams is the author of a number of prose works. She is also editor of The Interpreter’s House magazine. The author of two books of poetry, The Sun’s Yellow Eye (National Poetry Foundation) and The Latin Master’s Story (Rockingham Press), translator of Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca (Bloodaxe) and editor of the anthology In The Spirit of Wilfred Owen (Wilfred Owen Association). She has also published studies of Thomas Hardy and a biography of the Victorian Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant.

The First Wife’s Tale (Shoestring, 2006) was on the Wales Book of the Year 2007 Long List.

Selected Publications:
Revolutions (Penguin, 1971)
Thomas Hardy and Rural England (Macmillan, 1972)
Nineteenth Century Novel and its Legacy (Open Up, 1973)
Preface to Hardy (Longman, 1976)
Women in the English Novel, 1800–1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1984)
Margaret Oliphant (Palgrave Macmillan, 1986)
Six Women Novelists (Palgrave Macmillan, 1987)
A Beleaguered City (Oxford, 1988)
Hang Gliders (Aquila Publications, 1989) 
Wilfred Owen (Seren, 1993)
Clare and Effie (Honno, 1996)
Sun’s Yellow Eye (NPF Publications, 1997)
The Latin Master’s Story (Rockingham Press, 2004)
The Watsons (Pen Press, 2005)
The First Wife’s Tale (Shoestring, 2006)