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Rhys Lewis, Minister of Bethel: an Autobiography

Daniel Owen · 1885

Original text in Welsh.

A widow's son tells of his childhood of chapel and slate, and of his brother who leads a strike.

Novel · 44 parts · about 177 000 words · about 12 h 48 of reading

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Contents

  1. Translator’s Preface3 min
  2. Introduction3 min
  3. IBiography4 min
  4. IIMy Birth4 min
  5. IIIEarliest Recollections5 min
  6. IVEvan Jones of Gwernyffynon, Husbandman10 min
  7. VThe Children’s Meeting10 min
  8. VIThe Irishman10 min
  9. VIIThe Two Schools13 min
  10. VIIIUnder Instruction13 min
  11. IXChurch Matters16 min
  12. XThe Subject of Education13 min
  13. XIWill Bryan on the Nature of a Church17 min
  14. XIIOn the Hearth13 min
  15. XIIISeth21 min
  16. XIVWill Bryan13 min
  17. XVThe Beginning of Troubles17 min
  18. XVIThe Day of Tribulation22 min
  19. XVIIFurther Trials16 min
  20. XVIIIThomas and Barbara Bartley14 min
  21. XIXAbel Hughes18 min
  22. XXThe Vicar of the Parish15 min
  23. XXIConverts19 min
  24. XXIIA Visit from More Than One Relation20 min
  25. XXIIIBob21 min
  26. XXIVReminiscences, Sad and Consolatory21 min
  27. XXVAn Elegy in Prose18 min
  28. XXVIDegeneracy and an Apparition22 min
  29. XXVIIDays of Darkness21 min
  30. XXVIIIMaster and Servant23 min
  31. XXIXThe Clock-Cleaner’s Advice24 min
  32. XXXThe Poacher27 min
  33. XXXIDavid Davis23 min
  34. XXXIIThe Multitude of Counsellors25 min
  35. XXXIIIMore of Will Bryan25 min
  36. XXXIVThomas Bartley on a Collegiate Education25 min
  37. XXXVTroublous23 min
  38. XXXVIA Well-Known Character27 min
  39. XXXVIIThomas Bartley Visits Bala34 min
  40. XXXVIIIA Fortunate Encounter21 min
  41. XXXIXWill Bryan in His Castle26 min
  42. XLThe Autobiography of Will Bryan23 min
  43. XLIThe First Time and the Last19 min
  44. XLIIThe Minister of Bethel10 min

About this text

Daniel Owen († 1895): public-domain work. The text is that of la transcription établie par Erostrate sur le fac-similé d'Internet Archive (Rhys Lewis, Minister of Bethel: an Autobiography, by Daniel Owen, translated from the Welsh by James Harris, revised edition, Wrexham, Hughes and Son, 1915). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.

Note on the edition (in French): Traduction anglaise de James Harris, édition révisée de 1915, avec la préface et les notes du traducteur, la note des éditeurs et l'introduction. Fautes d'impression de l'édition et parler dialectal des personnages gardés. Texte établi en collationnant deux lectures du scan, divergences relues sur l'image.

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