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Menna Patricia Humphreys Gallie (1919〔(Writers plaques ) Accessed 31 December 2013〕–1990) was a Welsh novelist and translator. Menna Patricia Humphreys was born in Ystradgynlais, and attended Swansea University, where she met the philosopher W. B. Gallie. They were married in 1940, and had a son and a daughter.〔(The Life and Works of Menna Gallie. ) Retrieved 28 December 2009〕 Both were politically active, with a commitment to democratic socialism.〔(''The Independent'' Obituary: Professor W. B. Gallie, 5 September 1998. ) Retrieved 4 September 2012.〕 She is best known for her novels in the English language, and as the translator of Caradog Prichard's ''Un Nos Ola Leuad'', under the title ''Full Moon''. One reviewer commented on her "characteristically robust humor."〔(OSUN website. ) Retrieved 28 December 2009〕 Another said "Menna Gallie, a sort of Welsh Edna O'Brien, writes beady-eyed, bawdy-tongued entertainments calculated to stir recognition in women and discomfiture in men (were they to read it)." Her first novel ''Strike for a Kingdom'' is "both an engrossing detective novel and a social panorama of a small Welsh village during the 1926 General Strike".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,,1714699,00.html )〕 It was reprinted by Honno, the Welsh Women's Press, in 2003, with an introduction by Angela John.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.honno.co.uk/chwilio.php?func=pori_adran&adran=Novel )〕 It was dramatised by BBC Radio 4 in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k9lcd )〕 by Diana Griffiths. ''Man's Desiring'' (1960) was described by a reviewer as a novel with "warm and winning ways" a gentle comedy of contrasts about a Welsh man and an English woman at a Midlands university.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/menna-gallie/mans-desiring/#review )〕 ''The Small Mine'' tells the tale of a young collier's death in an industrial accident in the same fictional village created in ''Strike for a Kingdom''. It was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 2004 by Diana Griffiths. ''Travels with a Duchess'' is the journey of a menopausal wife from Cardiff who loses her luggage en route to Yugoslavia and abandons her usual ways in favor of adventure and 'debauchery'. ==Novels== *''Strike for a Kingdom'' (1959); shortlisted for Gold Dagger Award *''Man's Desiring'' (1960) *''The Small Mine'' (1962) *''Travels with a Duchess'' (1968) *''You're Welcome to Ulster!'' (1970) *''In These Promiscuous Parts'' (1974) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Menna Gallie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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