ABSTRACT
The nineteenth-century novelist Daniel Owen (1836–1895) is considered one of the preeminent literary figures in the Welsh language, and perhaps its greatest novelist. Certainly his second work Rhys Lewis (published 1885 – full title Hunangofiant Rhys Lewis, Gweinidog Bethel ‘Reminiscences of Rhys Lewis, Minister of Bethel’), is widely regarded as the first true novel in Welsh; it was followed by two further novels, Enoc Huws (1891) and Gwen Tomos (1894), and a collection of short stories Straeon y Pentan published in the year of his death.
