Helen Prothero-Lewis (15 June 1853 – 7 August 1946) was a Welsh writer.

Early life and education

Prothero-Lewis was born in

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, the daughter of solicitor John Prothero Lewis and Frances Elizabeth Shipley Lewis. Her brother R. Shipley Lewis was also a solicitor in Llandeilo.

Career

Prothero-Lewis wrote twenty-one novels, mostly romances set in Wales, between 1890 and 1928. She also wrote short stories and poems for periodicals including ''

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''. Three of her novels were adapted into silent films: ''

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'' (1920), ''The Silver Bridge'' (1920), and ''Love and the Whirlwind'' (1922). Prothero-Lewis was considered a reliable and talented novelist in her genre. "Sometimes there are sentences, bits of description, in the romances of the country-side, which make one think that, had she been less normal, less conventional, the authoress might have written something in the vein of ''

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,''" wrote

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in '' The Bookman'' in 1925, pointing to some "macabre touches" and "two dark, wild brothers" in ''The Hills Beyond.''

Publications

* "The Vail of Llangollen" (poem, 1886, ''The Red Dragon)'' * "An Unhappy Bachelor" (story 1890, ''The Girl's Own Paper'') * ''Her Heart's Desire'' (1890) * ''A Lady of My Own'' (1891) * ''Hooks of Steel'' (1894) * ''Thraldom'' (1903) * ''Tobias and the Angel'' (1906) * ''The Unguarded Taper'' (1906) * "A Happy Chance" (story, 1906, ''The Girl's Own Paper'') * "What the Wind Did" (story, 1907, ''The Girl's Own Paper'') * "His Own Particular Rose" (story, 1908, ''The Girl's Own Paper'') * ''Adventures of Armine de Lancy'' (1910) * ''The Silent Shore'' (1921) * ''The Hills Beyond'' (1925)Webb, Mary
"The Bookman Gallery: Helen Prothero Lewis"
''The Bookman'' 69(410)(November 1925): 111. * ''Like Any Other Man'' (1923) * ''The Heart of the Offender'' (1924) * ''A Woman in the Making'' (1926) * ''Henrietta'' (1928)

Personal life

Prothero-Lewis married solicitor James Jacob George Pugh in 1895, and the couple lived in

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. Her husband died in 1904, and she died in 1946, at the age of 93, in Llandeilo, a few weeks after her last surviving sibling, Agnes.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Prothero-Lewis, Helen 1853 births 1946 deaths Welsh women writers People from Llandeilo