FOULKES, ANNIE (1877 - 1962), editor of an anthology

Born 24 March 1877 at Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. Her father, Edward Foulkes (1850 - 1917), was an official at Dinorwig slate quarry, a man of wide literary culture and author of a number of articles in Welsh periodicals on 19th-c. English writers : Robert Williams Parry wrote a sonnet in memory of him. She was educated at Dr. Williams' School, Dolgellau, and at College de Jeunes Filles in Saumur, France, 1896-97. She was a French teacher at Bray, Co. Wicklow, 1897, at Tregaron county school, 1898-1905, and Barry county school, 1905-18. In 1918 she was appointed Executive Secretary of the Appointments Board of the University of Wales, to succeed Robert Silyn Roberts. At Barry she was a member of a literary circle which formed around Thomas Jones, C.H. and Silyn - the group behind the establishment of The Welsh Outlook. Thomas Jones believed there was a need for an anthology of modern Welsh poetry and suggested that Annie Foulkes should edit it. The anthology appeared in 1918 under the title Telyn y dydd, as one of the volumes of the series ' Cyfres yr Enfys '. It became very popular, particularly in schools - a fourth edition was published in 1929. Annie Foulkes died unmarried at Caernarfon 12 November 1862 aged 85 years.

Author

• Bedwyr Lewis Jones, (1933 - 1992)

Sources

• The papers of Annie Foulkes and her father at Bangor College Library (Bangor Manuscripts at University College North Wales Library, Bangor 16040-16410, 16590-16668)
• Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald and North Wales Observer, 16 and 23 November 1962 (under Caernarfon)

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Annie Foulkes

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20732626

Published date: 2001

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