#margiad evans

[nusumigaki]

あのころはなぜ、何もかも美しく思えたのだろう？ すべてが美しかったはずはない。

[nusumigaki]

「自分を大切にしていないと、勝手に、何か別のものに所属させられてしまう。国家だわ。自分を乗っ取ろうとするものなんて、それ以外にはない⋯⋯」

[queerwelsh]

‘Landladies’: photos of Margiad Evans (Peggy Whistler), the bisexual Anglo Welsh writer. Left: With sister Nancy Whistler/Sian Evans at Ross on Wye in 1938. Right: Margiad at Springherne, near Ross on Wye in the last 1930s.

Via ‘Women in Trousers’, an Archive by Cardiff University. (Women in Trousers on Twitter)

[delicatebluebirdruins]

The power of attention: women, nature writing and climate change

Diana Wallace, Professor of English at University of South Wales In Margiad Evans’s extraordinary Autobiography (1943), a collection of nature writings, is an essay entitled ‘The Autobiography of an Afternoon’. She records how, having finished her dinner, she took her dog and a basket and walked to a nearby hillside to find a spot to […]

[nusumigaki]

「そうです。川が大好きなんです。わたしにとって、川に勝るものは何もありません」

[joanofdirt]

“Mr Maitlands has discovered nothing wrong,” she said. “He will write to your own doctor.”

“But nothing can be done? Shall I always be like this?” “You may grow out of it in about five years.” Shut up with the beast for the rest of my life. The image of the Wooden Doctor alone between me and despair, between me and the fox’s mask. The matron continued: “Don't be too cast down. Strange things happen at twenty-one. Be patient.”

from The Wooden Doctor, Margiad Evans