Roger Edwards (Calvinist)
Roger Edwards
Early life
Edwards was born in 1811, the year in which the Calvinistic Methodists first assumed the power to ordain their own ministers; and he grew up in
The leaders in the Chronicle for 1836 on the "House of Lords", "The Ballot" and "Church Rates" were strongly radical, and they brought on young Edwards the charge of socialism and sympathy with Tom Paine.
Editing and publishing
From 1839 to 1874 Edwards was secretary of the
Edwards was the first to publish a serial story in Welsh; of these he wrote three.
Influence
Although his own literary efforts are largely forgotten today, he was a key early influence on the novelist Daniel Owen, serving as a kind of mentor to the fatherless Owen and encouraging him to take up writing when illness had forced Owen to give up preaching. Owen's first two novels, Y Dreflan and Rhys Lewis, appeared in Y Drysorfa during Edwards' editorship.[2]
Works
- Y Tri Brawd a'u Teuluoedd (1866)[3]
References
- ^ Gwilym Thomas Jones (1959). "Edwards, Roger (1811-1886), Calvinistic Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
- ^ Rhys, Robert. Daniel Owen Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000. p. 145
- ISBN 978-0-7083-1167-7. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885โ1900.
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