Allen Raine
| Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe | |
|---|---|
 Exhibition notice | |
| Born |
Anne Adalisa Evans 6 October 1836 Newcastle Emlyn |
| Died | 21 June 1908 (aged 71) |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Ethnicity | Welsh |
| Genre | Novel |
| Spouse | Beynon Puddicombe |
Allen Raine was the pseudonym of the Welsh novelist Anne Adaliza Beynon Puddicombe (6 October 1836 – 21 June 1908).
Life
She was born Anne Adaliza Evans in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, the eldest daughter of a lawyer Benjamin and Letitia Grace Evans.[1] Her father was a lawyer and the grandson of David Davis (1745–1827); her mother was the granddaughter of Daniel Rowland.[2]
In 1849, she was sent to be educated with the family of a Unitarian minister, Henry Solly, at Cheltenham, and afterwards lived in the suburbs of London with her sister Lettie. Returning to Wales in 1856 she married the banker Beynon Puddicombe at Penbryn Church, Tresaith on 10 April 1872; he was the foreign correspondent of Smith Payne's Bank, London. They lived in the London area until February 1900, when her husband became mentally ill. They retired to Bronmôr, Tresaith in Cardiganshire until his death in 1906 (29 May; buried at Penbryn Church); she remained there until her death, on 21 June 1908.[2]
Works
- Ynysoer (National Eisteddfod winner; 1894)
- A Welsh Singer (1896)
- Torn Sails (1897)
- By Berwen Banks (1899)
- Garthowen (1900)
- A Welsh Witch (1902) Republished by Honno Classics, 2013
- On the Wings of the Wind (1903)
- Hearts of Wales (1905)
- Queen of the Rushes (1906) Republished by Honno Classics, 1998
- Neither Storehouse nor Barn (1908)
- All in a Month (short story collection; 1908)
- Where Billows Roll (originally Ynysoer, Eisteddfod winner 1894)
- Under the Thatch - unfinished at her death, eventually completed by Lyn Evans (1910)
Films
Torn Sails (1915), A Welsh Singer (starring Florence Turner 1920) and By Berwen Banks (1920).
notes
References
Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1912). "Puddicombe, Anne Adalisa". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement. London: Smith, Elder & Co. - Jones, Sally Roberts. "Puddicombe , Anne Adalisa (1836–1908)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35628. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "Puddicombe, Anne Adalisa ('Allen Raine'; 1836-1908)". Welsh Biography Online.
- Sally Roberts Jones - Allen Raine (1979)
- Katie Gramich - Twentieth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2007.
External links
- Allen Raine website
- Works by Allen Raine at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Allen Raine at Internet Archive