Read all about it! Cranogwen is now available in English.

Members will remember Jane Aaron’s fascinating talk back in February 2024 about her book Cranogwen.

Later that year, the book went on to win the Wales Book of the Year Award for creative non-fiction. It has now been translated and was published last month in English. Copies are available in our wonderful town bookshop, Gwisgo Bookworm.

Cranogwen had a number of links with Aberaeron:

• She won the Chair in the town Eisteddfod of 1873 for her poem “Drylliad Y North Fleet” ( The Wreck of the North Fleet),

• She gave talks at Tabernacle Chapel and other local chapels as part of her lecture tours and temperance campaign,

• She was a great friend of Margaret Davies (nee Evans) of Portland House, who was herself a published poet, writing under the name Aeronwen,

• And finally, perhaps a connection she would have preferred to forget! In 1899 she was fined 1 shilling by the Court in County Hall for driving a carriage without lights on it in Synod Inn.

  
  

Master mariner, teacher, poet, lecturer, campaigner, agony aunt and editor, Cranogwen is certainly a Welsh heroine long overdue having a book dedicated to her achievements.