Miner's Day, with Rhondda images by Isabel Alexander

B.L. Coombes

ISBN 10: 1913640388 / ISBN 13: 9781913640385

Verlag: Parthian Books, 2021

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Edited with an introduction byPeter WakelinPart of the Modern Wales series.Originally published in 1945, Miner’sDay tells of the coalmining life of thethirties in south Wales.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Isabel Alexander (1910-1996) was a British artist andillustrator whose work encompassed drawing, water colour,oils, lithography, lino-printing and three-dimensional work, andwhose output ranged from socially-engaged documentation of thelives and work of Welsh coalminers, Irish fishermen and Englishfarmworkers through book illustration to landscapes, seascapesand abstracts. Bertie Louis Coombes, or B. L. Coombes (1893–1974), wasa Welsh coalminer, notable for his autobiography These PoorHands: The Autobiography of a Miner in South Wales (1939)which became an instant bestseller. He also produced shortstories, dramas and other autobiographical works about the livesof coalminers and the communities in which they lived. Wakelin is a writer and curator. He was formerly Secretaryof the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monumentsof Wales and Director of Collections & Research at NationalMuseum Wales. He has recently curated work for the NationalEisteddfod.

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Titel: Miner's Day, with Rhondda images by Isabel ...
Verlag: Parthian Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: Hardcover
Illustrator: Alexander, Isabel
Zustand: Very Good