The Nightingale Silenced,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23367B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004646123
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1954 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • i, 115 ff. (old foliation 1-104, 98-107, with errors) ; 200 x 160 mm. Six exercise books, boxed.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Two incomplete manuscript drafts, 1954, of 'The Nightingale Silenced', an unpublished autobiographical work by Margiad Evans, describing the worsening of her epilepsy.
Also included is an apparently unpublished draft poem, 'Dedication. The Egotist' (f. i verso), and a list of poems written whilst a patient in the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells (f. 112).

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23367B.

Custodial History

'Copy written in Tunbridge Wells Hospital September 1954' on f. i; 'Dedicated to: F. L. Golla and Y. B. G.' on f. i verso [Sir Frederick Lucian Golla, the author's neurologist, and his daughter, Yolande].

Related Material

See also NLW MS 23368B.

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