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Ffion Mair Jones is a member of the 'Wales and the French Revolution' | project team. She has worked at the Centre since October 2001, when she was appointed research fellow on the ‘Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition inWales , 1740–1918’| project. She was primarily involved in the work of preparing for publication the correspondence of Iolo Morganwg, by transcribing, editing and providing footnotes to the text, and by translating Welsh letters and poems which are included in the letters into English. The work was published in three volumes in October 2007 under the title The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg (see details below). Ffion has recently completed her volume on the marginalia of Iolo Morganwg. Notes on a variety of topics in Iolo’s hand, covering every scrap of blank paper, are a prominent feature of the letters edited. These notes, together with marginalia by Iolo in books from his collection, will receive critical attention in this new study, which will be published by the University of Wales Press later this year.
In addition to her work on Iolo Morganwg, Ffion takes an interest in the folk tradition of the Welsh interlude and in some of the poets of this tradition, including Huw Morys, Mathew Owen and Richard Parry. She is particularly interested in the way in which the native historical tradition is related and disputed in the work of some of these interlude-writers and poets during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this field she has published a research paper entitled ‘[M]ae r Stori yn wir iw gweled / yn nghronicle y Brutanied’: Dramateiddiadau Cymraeg o’r ffug-hanes Brytanaidd [‘The Story is truthfully to be seen / in the chronicles of the Britons’: Welsh dramatizations of the legendary history of the Britons]. Her edition of Huw Morys’s interlude on the British Civil Wars, ‘Y Rhyfel Cartrefol’ was published in 2008.
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