Olwyn hughes biography of williams

Born in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, Olwyn was the middle child of William, a carpenter, and Edith (nee Farrar); an older brother, Gerald.

Olwyn Marguerite Hughes was born on August 26 in the Yorkshire mill town of Mytholmroyd, the second of three children of William Hughes.

Olwyn who had a long and varied career which included work as a literary agent and publisher was the elder sister of the Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.

Olwyn Hughes was a 20th-century Dorothy Wordsworth: a tall, striking, chain-smoking, plainspoken Yorkshirewoman who would “interpose her body to shield her.

She was born on 26 August in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, a canal-side mill town, the middle child of carpenter William Hughes and his wife.

Olwyn who had a long and varied career which included work as a literary agent and publisher was the elder sister of the Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.!

Hughes: the papers of Olwyn Marguerite Hughes

Fonds

Reference Code: GBR/1058/HUO

Scope and Contents

The papers consist of material collected by Olwyn Hughes, mainly during the period she acted as literary agent for her brother Ted Hughes.

Papers include copies of early appearances of many of Ted Hughes's and Sylvia Plath's poems and essays in literary magazines and newspapers and many newspaper cuttings relating to the work and lives of Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and their children.

The collection contains no original manuscript material by Ted Hughes or Sylvia Plath.

Dates

Creator

Hughes, Edward James, 1930-1998 (Poet Laureate) (Person)
Plath, Sylvia, 1932-1963 (afterwards Hughes, poet and novelist) (Person)
Heaney, Seamus Justin, 1939-2013 (poet, playright and translator) (Person)
Alvarez, Alfred, 1929-2019 (author) (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Olwyn Hughes was born in 1928, the middle child of William and Edith