Hilda Vaughan

Hilda Campbell Vaughan (married name Morgan; 12 June 1892 – 4 November 1985) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. She was the author of ten varied novels, set mostly in her native Radnorshire and concerning rural communities and heroines, beginning with The Battle to the Weak in 1925. Her last novel was The Candle and the Light, published in 1954. She was married to the writer Charles Langbridge Morgan, who was an influence on her writings. Although favourably received by her contemporaries, Vaughan received minimal critical attention in subsequent years. A rediscovery of her work began in the 1980s and 1990s particularly, as part of a renewed analysis of Welsh literature in English.

Vaughan was born in Builth Wells, Powys, then the county of Breconshire, into a prosperous family, the youngest daughter of Hugh Vaughan Vaughan and Eva (née Campbell). Her father was a successful country solicitor and held various public offices in the neighbouring county of Radnorshire. She was a descendant of 17th-century poet Henry Vaughan.

Vaughan was educated privately, and remained at home until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, after which she served in a Red Cross hospital and for the Women's Land Army in Breconshire and Radnorshire. Her work brought her into contact with women living on the local farms, and would become an influence on her writing. At the end of the war she left home for London, and whilst attending a writing course at Bedford College met the novelist Charles Langbridge Morgan. They married on 6 June 1923 and afterwards took a flat together in Chelsea, where they lived for nine years. In December of the following year, Vaughan gave birth to the couple's first child, Elizabeth Shirley.

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