On a Dark Night with Enough Wind
On a Dark Night with Enough Wind
Author(s):
Lilla Pennant
Publication Date: 30 October, 2020
Available in all formats
Publisher: The Books Council of Wales
ISBN: 9781784619381
ISBN: 9781784619381
Price: INR 564.99
Description
Table of contents
How did people survive in the lonely cottages on the Welsh hilltops? Lilla Pennant sets out to uncover and retell the true stories of the people of a village and a strange hill-slope community in the Clwydian hills. Life was tough, but for some it was also a wild adventure.
Description
How did people survive in the lonely cottages on the Welsh hilltops? Lilla Pennant sets out to uncover and retell the true stories of the people of a village and a strange hill-slope community in the Clwydian hills. Life was tough, but for some it was also a wild adventure.
Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 – On the mountain
- 2 – Lizzie
- 3 – In pursuit of a wife
- 4 – With a Voice like God
- 5 – Catching hold of the axle
- 6 – Tom and Jo ‘y go’’
- 7 – Savage Williams
- 8 – Building the hall
- 9 – The people of Sodom
- 10 – The declamations of Margaret Edwards
- 11 – A bit of a witch
- 12 – Herb beer
- 13 – On a dark night with enough wind…
- 14 – An absent-minded man
- 15 – How it all ended
- 16 – Older tunes
- Postscript
- Brief biographies