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 Pontrobert is an ecclesiastical parish that was formed in September 1854. It comprises the townships of Teirtref and part of Nantymeichiaid in the parish Meifod, a portion of Cynhinfa which was in the parish of Llangynyw and portions of the to ...

, 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 Ann Griffiths (née Thomas, 1776–1805) was a Welsh poet and writer of Methodist Christian hymns in the Welsh language. Her poetry reflects her fervent Christian faith and thorough scriptural knowledge. Biography Ann was born in April 1776 ...

, the hymn-writer. Jane Hughes was christened in her father's chapel, Capel Uchaf Pontrobert by a minister who had been ordained only the month before. Jane Hughes began writing in about 1846. Her parents died in the 1850s after which she began to travel around Wales. 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 Porthmadog (; ), originally Portmadoc until 1974 and locally as "Port", is a Welsh coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd and the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It lies east of Criccieth, south-west of Blaenau Ffest ...

in 1878.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

Works

*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)

References

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