Mary Davies (poet)

Mary Davies (17 October 1846 – 8 October 1882), also known as Mair Eifion, was a Welsh poet writing in the Welsh language.

Mair Eifion

Biography

Mary Davies was born 17 October 1846. She was the eldest daughter of Captain Lewis Davies and his wife Jennet, who ran the Tregunter Arms, a public house in Porthmadog, North Wales. She was educated at a private school there.[1]

Verse and appreciation

Mary Davies displayed from a young age a talent for writing poetry. Her work began to be published in the periodical Y Dysgedydd, which was edited in 1853–1873 by William Ambrose (Emrys), a mentor of hers, along with Ioan Madog (John Williams, 1812–1878).[1]

After she had begun to win prizes locally for her work, Davies was admitted to the Gorsedd circle at the 1875 National Eisteddfod in Pwllheli. After her death in 1882, William Roberts edited her works of poetry and published them under the title Blodeu Eifion, sef Gwaith Barddonol Mair Eifion.[2]

Mary Davies died unmarried in Porthmadog on 8 October 1882 and was buried at Soar, near Talsarnau.[1]

References
  1. Idwal Lewis. "DAVIES, MARY". Dictionary of Welsh Biography, National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  2. Griffith Milwyn Griffiths, "ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Eryri; 1844–1895?)", Dictionary of Welsh Biography, National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2016.


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