Stevie Davies
Encyclopedia
Stevie Davies is an award-winning Welsh
novelist. She is currently a lecturer at the Swansea University
, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
.
She was longlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for her novel, The Element of Water, which went on to win the 2002 Arts Council of Wales
Book of the Year
award. Her first novel, Boy Blue, had won the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1987, and her work has also been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
.
She wrote a biography of the poet Henry Vaughan
.
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
novelist. She is currently a lecturer at the Swansea University
Swansea University
Swansea University is a university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea University was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes...
, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by George IV, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The Society's first president was Thomas Burgess, who later became the Bishop of Salisbury...
.
She was longlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for her novel, The Element of Water, which went on to win the 2002 Arts Council of Wales
Arts Council of Wales
The Arts Council of Wales is a Welsh Government sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.Established by Royal Charter in 1946, as the Welsh Arts Council , when it merged with the three Welsh regional arts associations...
Book of the Year
Wales Book of the Year
The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors...
award. Her first novel, Boy Blue, had won the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1987, and her work has also been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction
Orange Prize for Fiction
The Orange Prize for Fiction is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year...
.
She wrote a biography of the poet Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan
Henry Vaughan was a Welsh physician and metaphysical poet.Vaughan and his twin brother the hermetic philosopher and alchemist Thomas Vaughan, were the sons of Thomas Vaughan and his wife Denise of 'Trenewydd', Newton, in Brecknockshire, Wales...
.
Novels
- The Eyrie - Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2007
- Kith & Kin — Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004
- The Element of Water — The Women's Press 2001
- Impassioned Clay — The Women's Press 1999
- The Web of Belonging — The Women's Press 1997
- Four Dreamers and Emily — The Women's Press 1996
- Closing the Book — The Women's Press 1994
- Arms and the Girl — The Women's Press 1992
- Primavera — The Women's Press 1990
- Boy Blue — The Women's Press 1987
Non-fiction
- A Century of Troubles: England 1600 - 1700 — Channel 4 Books 2001
- Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution 1640 - 1660 — The Women's Press 1998
- Emily Brontë — Writers and Their Work, New Series, Northcote House (in association with the British Council) 1998
- Emily Brontë: Heretic — The Women's Press 1994
- Emily Brontë — Key Women Writers Series, Harvester Press 1988
- Emily Brontë: The Artist as a Free Woman — Carcanet Press 1983
- The Brontë Sisters: Selected Poems, Edited by Stevie Davies — Fyfield Series, Carcanet 1976
- John Donne — Writers and their Work, New Series, Northcote House (in association with the British Council) 1994
- Dreams and Other Aggravations: Selected Poems by Carla LaneCarla LaneCarla Lane, OBE is an English television writer responsible for many successful sitcoms, including The Liver Birds , Butterflies , and Bread ....
, edited by Stevie Davies — Earth Ventures 2003 - Milton — New Readings Series, Harvester Wheatsheaf 1991
- Images of Kingship in Paradise Lost: Milton's Politics and Christian Liberty — University of Missouri Press 1983
- The Idea of Woman in Renaissance English Literature: The Feminine Reclaimed — The Harvester Press 1986 (also published as: The Feminine Reclaimed: The Idea of Woman in Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton — The University Press of Kentucky 1986)
- Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew — Penguin Critical Studies 1995
- Shakespeare's Twelfth Night — Penguin Critical Studies 1993
- Henry VaughanHenry VaughanHenry Vaughan was a Welsh physician and metaphysical poet.Vaughan and his twin brother the hermetic philosopher and alchemist Thomas Vaughan, were the sons of Thomas Vaughan and his wife Denise of 'Trenewydd', Newton, in Brecknockshire, Wales...
— Seren Books, Border Lines Series 1995 - Virginia WoolfVirginia WoolfAdeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....
's To the Lighthouse — Penguin Critical Studies 1989 - Renaissance Views of Man — Literature in Context Series, Manchester University Press 1978
Short stories
- Woman Recumbent: Ghosts of the Old Year: New Welsh Short Fiction (an anthology representing the winners of the 2001 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition); Parthian (with the assistance of the Rhys Davies Trust), Cardigan 2003
- Pod: Ghosts of the Old Year: New Welsh Short Fiction (an anthology representing the winners of the 2001 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition); Parthian (with the assistance of the Rhys Davies Trust), Cardigan 2003
- Inside Out: The Gift: New Writing for the NHS, ed. David Morley. Stride (in association with Birmingham Health Authority), Exeter 2002
- Mirrors: The Bridport PrizeBridport prizeThe Bridport Prize International Creative Writing Competition was founded in 1973 and has steadily grown in stature and prestige. Today many thousands of entries are received from over 80 countries. In many cases a win in the Bridport Prize has led to further successes and helped to launch new...
2001: Poetry and Short Stories, selected by Kate AtkinsonKate AtkinsonKate Atkinson MBE is an English author.She was born in York, and studied English Literature at the University of Dundee, gaining her Masters Degree in 1974. She subsequently studied for a doctorate in American Literature. She has often spoken publicly about the fact that she failed at the viva ...
and Maura Dooley. Sansom & Company, Bristol 2001 - Pips: New Welsh Review No. 52 Vol XIII/IV (Spring '01)
- Documents: The Cambrensis Anthology, ed. Lewis Davies. Parthian, Cardiff 1999
- My Father's Greatcoat: A Second Skin: Women Write about Clothes, ed. Kirsty Dunseath. The Women's Press, London 1998
- The Testament of Catherine Vaughan: Scintilla, 2, ed. Anne Cluysenaar. Cardiff 1998
- My Mistake: Feast! Women Write about Food, ed. Laurie Critchley & Helen Windrath. The Women's Press, London 1996
Articles
- "Welsh Writers Against the War", New Welsh ReviewNew Welsh Review-History:Founded in 1988 as successor to The Welsh Review , Dock Leaves, and The Anglo-Welsh Review , New Welsh Review is Wales’s foremost literary magazine in English...
No. 61 (Autumn 2003) pp. 49-60 - "Hearing Voices: From History via Fiction to Radio Drama", New Welsh Review No. 61 (Autumn 2003) pp. 23-34
- "Sebald's Austerlitz: A Child of Llanwyddyn", New Welsh Review No. 55 Vol. XIV/III (Spring 2002) pp. 89-92
- "The Pilgrimage of Anne Brontë: A Celebration of her Life and Work", Brontë Society Transactions Vol. 25, Pt 1 (April 2000)
- "Reflections on the Poetry of Wuthering Heights", Brontë Society Transactions XXIII Pt 2 (October 1998) pp. 103-111
- "Henry Vaughan: A Tercentennial Meditation", Brycheiniog XXVII (1994-1995) pp. 53-63
- "Milton's Urania: The Meaning, Not the Name I Call", in collaboration with W. B. Hunter, Studies in English Literature 28 (1988) pp. 95-111
- "Jane Eyre: Exile and Grace", Durham University Journal LXXVII (June 1985) pp. 223-227
- "The Quest for the One: Eve and Narcissus in Paradise Lost", Studies in Mystical Literature (January 1983) pp. 1-17
- "Triumph and Anti-Triumph: The Image of the Roman Emperor in Paradise Lost", Etudes Anglaises XXXIV Annee 4 (October - December 1981) pp. 385-398
- "John Milton on Liberty", Memoirs & Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society 117 (1974 -1975) pp. 37-51
- "History as Art: George DangerfieldGeorge DangerfieldGeorge Dangerfield was a journalist, historian, and the literary editor of Vanity Fair from 1933 to 1935...
, The Strange Death of Liberal England", Critical Quarterly 16, No. 4 (Winter 1974) pp. 361-369 - "An Analysis of John Milton's Paradise Lost I. 589-669", Critical Survey VI, Nos. 1 & 2 (Summer 1973) pp. 21-25
Reviews
- "Stevie Davies on Into Suez", Books Quarterly, Waterstones