Allen Raine

Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe
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Born Anne Adalisa Evans
(1836-10-06)6 October 1836
Newcastle Emlyn
Died 21 June 1908(1908-06-21) (aged 71)
Language English
Nationality British
Genre Novel
Spouse Beynon Puddicombe

Allen Raine was the pseudonym of the Welsh novelist Anne Adaliza Beynon Puddicombe (6 October 1836 – 21 June 1908). She sold two million copies of the novels.

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. The family included literati such as George Eliot, Mrs Henry Wood, and Bulwer-Lytton. She later lived in the suburbs of London with her sister Lettie.[3]

Returning to Wales in 1856 she married the banker Beynon Puddicombe at Penbryn Church, Tresaith, Cardiganshire, 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, a house in Tresaith, 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

  1. ↑ National Library of Wales; bibliography; retrieved 24/10/2011
  2. 1 2 Thomas 1912.
  3. ↑ "Puddicombe [née Evans], Anne Adalisa [pseud. Allen Raine] (1836–1908), novelist | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35628, retrieved 2018-10-06

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.
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