AMC / WAW Collections held in the National Library of Wales

National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3BU

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The Menna Gallie Collection

Accession Number A2000/67 / Reference Code GB210 MENGAL

Photographer unknown.

Photograph of Menna Gallie reproduced by kind permission of Annest Wiliam.

Menna Gallie, novelist, was born in 1920 in the mining village of Ystradgynlais in the Swansea Valley, and was brought up there and later in Creunant. Both parents were Welsh speakers, her father a North-Walian craftsman and her mother a local woman. She graduated in 1940 in English at Swansea University and in the same year married Bryce Gallie, a Scotsman who was a philosophy lecturer at Swansea. They lived in a number of different places after the end of the war including Northern Ireland, America and Cambridge. They moved back to Wales in 1978, to Newport, Pembrokeshire. Menna Gallie’s six novels include Strike for a Kingdom (1959), set in industrial South Wales, The Small Mine (1962), and Travels with a Duchess (1969), all reprinted by Honno. She also translated Caradog Prichard’s novel Un Nos Ola Leuad (Full Moon) (1973).

The collection includes drafts of her novels, transcripts of radio talks, articles, reviews, letters – including a collection written to Bryce Gallie when he was on active service during the war, and correspondence between her and Caradog Prichard, and other personal papers.

[extracted from General Introduction to holdings list, compiled by Nia Wyn Griffiths]

Extracts from this collection (click on the images to see the full-sized version):

	One of four drafts of a talk ‘The Fear of God’ [c1970], which describes Menna Gallie going back home, while she was living in Camrbdige, and going to a Cymanfa Ganu. The collection also contains a transcript copy of this talk which was transmitted on radio.
	Draft of a talk which Menna Gallie gave to Ardglass Women’s Institute, 1961, in which she spoke of her experiences of childhood in Wales
	Draft of address for International Day of Prayer, Newport, 1974

Equal Opportunities Commission Wales Collection

Accession Number A2001/67 Reference Code GB210 EOCW

The collection mainly consists of photocopied newspaper cuttings, 1982-2001, covering issues relating to the work of EOC, Wales. It is hoped that the EOC Wales will continue to add relevant material from time to time.

Subject matters includes topics such as age, bullying, child care and maternity, disability, discrimination, education, employment, Europe, homosexuality, language, politics, racism, religion, successful women, training, women in employment, women in sport, and women in the arts. There are also cuttings relating to The National Assembly for Wales, International Women’s Day and Valleys Regeneration.

[Extracted from NLW Holdings list, compiled by Martin Robson Riley]