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A collection of items relating to Daniel Owen, the renowned Welsh novelist from Mold, Flintshire.
A collection of items relating to Daniel Owen, the renowned Welsh novelist from Mold, Flintshire.
Daniel Owen was born in Mold in 1836, the youngest of six children. When he was a young baby his father and two of his brothers were drowned in an accident at the Argoed colliery, and Owen was brought up in great poverty. In 1851, when he was twelve years of age, Owen was apprenticed to a local tailor. Although he spent some time at Bala College, where he began training to become a minster of religion, he did not complete his studies and returned to his native town to set up his own drapery and tailor business. Owen had taken a keen interest in literature since his early twenties and he published a volume of sermons in 1879. During the years which followed Owen wrote a series of popular novels, and many were serialised in the denominational magazines. Among his most famous works are 'Y Dreflan' (1881), 'Rhys Lewis' (1885), 'Enoc Huws' (1891) and 'Gwen Tomos' (1894).
