Elisabeth Inglis-Jones
{{Short description|Welsh novelist and biographer (1900–1994)}}
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Elisabeth Inglis-Jones (1900–1994) was a Welsh historical novelist, local historian and biographer. Starved Fields (1929) was the first of six historical novels she published.{{Cite book |title=Crumbling Pageant (Welsh Women's Classics) |isbn=978-1909983359 |language=|last1=Inglis-Jones |first1=Elisabeth |year=2015 }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/utilities/action/act_download.cfm?mediaid=37072&langtoken=eng |title=Finder of the lost paradise |author=Fry, Swithin |publisher=The Cambrian News |date=3 February 1989 |access-date=15 April 2016 |language= |archive-date=5 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605122659/https://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/utilities/action/act_download.cfm?mediaid=37072&langtoken=eng |url-status=dead }} She was also noted as a writer of local history and biography. Her novel Crumbling Pageant reappeared in 2015.
Biography
Born in January 1900 in London, Inglis-Jones was raised in the village of Derry Ormond, now in the county of Ceredigion, on the Derry Ormond Estate, which her family had owned since 1783. The house was demolished in 1953.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gwales.com/goto/biblio/en/9781909983359/ |title=Welsh Women's Classics: Crumbling Pageant, Elisabeth Inglis-Jones |publisher=gwales.com |access-date=15 April 2016 |language=}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=7566 |title=Inglis-Jones, Elizabeth |publisher=Ceredigion County Council |access-date=15 April 2016 |language= |archive-date=5 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605112901/https://www.ceredigion.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=7566 |url-status=dead }}
Inglis-Jones moved back to the London area around 1937.{{Cite web |url=http://www.letterfromaberystwyth.co.uk/tag/elizabeth-inglis-jones/ |title=A portrait of Elizabeth Inglis Jones |publisher=Letter from Aberystwyth |access-date=15 April 2016 |language=}} In her late 80s, she was living in Camberley, Surrey.
Literary career
Inglis-Jones took up writing as a child, joining a literary group called The Scratch Society when she was 12 or 13. She spent almost three years writing her first novel, Starved Fields, which was published in 1929. Her often reprinted Peacocks in Paradise (1950, republished 1990) tells of Hafod, a historic Welsh mansion, and its first owner Thomas Johnes (1748–1815). Her five other novels were Crumbling Pageant (1932, republished 2015), Pay Thy Pleasure (1939), The Loving Heart (1942), Lightly He Journeyed (1946), and Aunt Albinia (1948).
Her works on Welsh history included The Story of Wales (1955), describing houses demolished since 1900. Among her biographies was The Great Maria (1959), about the writer Maria Edgeworth, The Lord of Burghley (1964) on William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Augustus Smith of Scilly (1964) on the 19th-century proprietor of the Isles of Scilly.
Jane Bowden, reviewing a revival of Crumbling Pageant, praised Inglis-Jones's "undeniable talent for story-telling, characterisation and lifelong passion for Wales", qualifying her as a "great Welsh woman writer".{{Cite web |url=https://www.newwelshreview.com/article.php?id=1091 |title=Crumbling Pageant |author=Bowden, Jane |publisher=New Welsh Review |access-date=16 April 2016 |language=}}
Selected works
=Novels=
- {{Cite book| last=Inglis-Jones |first=Elisabeth |title=Crumbling Pageant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qL1urgEACAAJ |year=2015 |publisher=Honno Limited |isbn=978-1-909983-35-9}}
- {{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Elizabeth Inglis |title=Starved Fields |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRyqGgAACAAJ |year=1929 |publisher=Constable}}
=Welsh history=
- {{Cite book |last=Inglis-Jones |first=Elisabeth |title=Peacocks in Paradise |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KE4sAAAACAAJ |year=1990 |publisher=Gomer Press |isbn=978-0-86383-672-5}}
- {{Cite book |last=Inglis-Jones |first=Elisabeth |title=The Great Maria: A Portrait of Maria Edgeworth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwlOjgEACAAJ |year=1959 |publisher=Faber & Faber}}
- {{Cite book |last=Inglis-Jones |first=Elisabeth |title=The Lord of Burghley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PcQAQAAIAAJ |year=1964 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=9787800618833}}
- {{Cite book |last=Inglis-Jones |first=Elisabeth |title=The Story of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1clrjgEACAAJ |year=1955 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=978-7-250-01074-4}}
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Category:20th-century Welsh historians
Category:20th-century Welsh novelists
Category:20th-century Welsh women writers
Category:Welsh historical novelists
Category:People from Ceredigion
Category:Welsh women novelists
Category:British women historical novelists
Category:Welsh women historians