Jane Hughes
Jane Hughes (25 June 1811 - 26 April 1878) was a Welsh poet and hymnist. She wrote under the pen name Deborah Maldwyn. Hughes was born in Pontrobert, Montgomeryshire on 25 June 1811 the third child to writer and Calvinist Methodist minister John Hughes and his wife, Ruth Evans, formerly a maid at Dolwar Fach, the home of Ann Griffiths, the hymn-writer.
Also recorded as Deborah Maldwyn
Jane Hughes
- Name
- Jane Hughes
- Born
- 25 June 1811
- Birthplace
- Pontrobert
- Died
- 1878
- Place of death
- Porthmadog
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Languages
- English
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Christened in her father's chapel, Capel Uchaf Pontrobert by a minister who had been ordained only the month before. Hughes began writing in about 1846. She followed Calvinistic Methodist meetings and sold her sheets of religious ballad to earn her living. Though she published a number of hymns they were not particularly successful. She became well known and had two collections of her works published in 1877. Hughes died in Porthmadog in 1878.
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• Name — Jane Hughes • Born — 25 June 1811 • Birthplace — Pontrobert • Died — 1878 • Place of death — Porthmadog
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• Llyfr Hymnau (Carmarthen, 1846) • Galargan am y diweddar Barch. Henry Rees, Liverpool (Carmarthen, 1869) • Yr Epha lawn o ymborth ysprydol i bererinion Seion (Caernarvon, 1877) • Telyn y Cristion (Caernarvon, 1877), Penillion ar enwau a swyddau Iesu Grist (Carmarthen, n.d.) • Cwyn a chysur y Credadyn (Cowbridge, 1889)
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- 1.HUGHES, JANE (Deborah Maldwyn; 1811 - 1878), hymnist.
- 2.Y. Welsh Newspapers.
- 3.Aaron, J. Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity. University of Wales Press. 23. 2010. 978-0-7083-2287-1.
- 4.Jenkins, Kathryn. Literature since 1500. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. 59. 617–621. 1997. 10.1163/22224297-90000198.
- 5.Jane Hughes Pontrobert. Cylchgronau Cymru. 20. 1901.
- 6.James, E. Wyn (2021). ""Montgomeryshire Worthies": biographical dictionary entries for John Davies (Tahiti), Ann Griffiths, and the Hughes family of Pontrobert". Cylchgrawn Hanes (Journal of the Historical Society of the Presbyterian Church of Wales). 45: 93-94
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