Amy Dillwyn

• Author(s): David Painting,
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Pages: 128
• ISBN_10: 070832679X
  ISBN_13: 9780708326794
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Women , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Biography & Autobiography / General , Literary Criticism / General , History / Social History ,

Description:... This is a new edition of David Painting's biography of Amy Dillwyn, first published in 1987. This is a very accessible biography of a remarkable woman, Amy Dillwyn (1845 - 1935); who was born into one of Swansea's most distinguished families, and became a leading industrialist and also novelist. Based largely on her diaries, it traces the life of a woman of exceptional spirit and personality who inherited her father's bankrupt business but learnt to make her way in a man's world.