Amy Dillwyn (1845-1935) was described at the time as “One of the most original women of the age.” (Pall Mall Gazette). Born in Swansea, she was a novelist, feminist and pioneering industrialist. In the first and most Welsh of her novels, The Rebecca Rioter, she satirises rigid gender roles Considered to be an eccentric with unorthodox and iconoclastic views, she went on to write and publish a further five novels, as well as being a regular, though anonymous, reviewer for The Spectator.
First published in 1880, The Rebecca Rioter is a novel based on the notorious Rebecca Riots in south and west Wales in the early nineteenth century. The story tells the tale of Evan Williams, a young working-class man, struggling to come to terms with the injustice and social inequalities...
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