Eluned Morgan

Eluned Morgan is famous for being an author.

Eluned Morgan
  • Eluned was brought up in Y Wladfa, (the Welsh colony) in Patagonia and went to a Welsh language school.
  • 1885: Eluned travelled to Wales and returned for a second time in 1888, when she attended a school in Dolgellau for two years.
  • 1890: After returning to the Welsh colony she kept a boarding school for girls in Trelew.
  • 1891: She started competing for essay prizes in the colony eisteddfodau.
  • 1896: Eluned returned again to Wales, and started publishing articles in the magazine 'Cymru'.
  • She worked hard to establish an intermediate school in Gaiman.
  • 1989: She travelled in the Andes, and sent an account of her journey to 'Cymru'.
  • 1903–09: She was an assistant at Cardiff Library and lectured aross Wales, before visiting the Middle East and returning to the colony.
  • 1904–09: She published her books 'Dringo’r Andes' (Climbing the Andes), and 'Gwymon y Môr', (Seaweed) which gave an account of the sea voyage from Wales to Patagonia.
  • 1912–18: She lived in Cardiff before returning to Y Wladfa.
  • 1914–15: She published 'Ar Dir a Môr' (On Land and Sea) about her travels in Palestine, and 'Plant yr Haul', (Children of the Sun) a book about the native peoples of Peru.

Place of Birth: On board the 'Myfanwy' in the Bay of Biscay

Date of Birth: 20 March 1870

Date of Death: 29 December 1938

‘She was a woman who was brought up far from Wales, without, what are considered here, the advantages of education, and yet she became one of the greatest writers of her nation.’ – Translated from R. Bryn Williams, ‘Eluned Morgan: Bywgraffiad a Detholiad’ (Y Clwb Llyfrau Cymreig 1948)