Helen Prothero-Lewis Explained

Helen Prothero-Lewis
Birth Date:15 June 1853
Birth Place:Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Death Date:7 August 1946 (age 93)
Death Place:Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Other Names:Helen Prothero Pugh
Occupation:Writer

Helen Prothero-Lewis (15 June 1853[1] – 7 August 1946) was a Welsh writer.

Early life and education

Prothero-Lewis was born in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, the daughter of solicitor John Prothero Lewis and Frances Elizabeth Shipley Lewis. Her brother R. Shipley Lewis was also a solicitor in Llandeilo.[2]

Career

Prothero-Lewis wrote twenty-one novels, mostly romances set in Wales, between 1890 and 1928.[3] She also wrote short stories and poems for periodicals including The Girl's Own Paper.[4] Three of her novels were adapted into silent films: As God Made Her (1920), The Silver Bridge (1920),[5] and Love and the Whirlwind (1922).

Prothero-Lewis was considered a reliable and talented novelist in her genre. "Sometimes there are sentences, bits of description, in the romances of the country-side, which make one think that, had she been less normal, less conventional, the authoress might have written something in the vein of Wuthering Heights," wrote Mary Webb in The Bookman in 1925, pointing to some "macabre touches" and "two dark, wild brothers" in The Hills Beyond.

Publications

Personal life

Prothero-Lewis married solicitor James Jacob George Pugh in 1895, and the couple lived in Twickenham. Her husband died in 1904, and she died in 1946, at the age of 93, in Llandeilo, a few weeks after her last surviving sibling, Agnes.[17]

Notes and References

  1. Prothero-Lewis appears as a 17-year-old in the 1871 census, and as a 37-year-old in the 1891 census, which both match the 1853 birthdate on her grave marker in Forest Lawn. Some sources give 1862 as her birthdate, including Troy J. Bassett, "Author: Helen Prothero Lewis", At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901.
  2. News: 1927-02-18 . Death of Mr. R. Shipley Lewis, Notable Llandilo Solicitor . 6 . The Welshman and General Advertiser for the Principality of Wales . 2023-08-26 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: Helen Prothero-Lewis . 2023-08-25 . Oxford Reference . en .
  4. Web site: Stories by Helen Prothero Lewis . 2023-08-25 . The Girl's Own Paper Index . en .
  5. Book: Young, R. G. . The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film: Ali Baba to Zombies . 2000 . Hal Leonard Corporation . 978-1-55783-269-6 . 569 . en.
  6. Lewis . Helen Prothero . 1886 . The Vail of Llangollen . The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales . 10 . 506.
  7. News: 6 November 1891 . A Review . 3 . The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser . August 25, 2023 . Welsh Newspapers, via The National Library of Wales.
  8. Book: Lewis, Helen Prothero . Hooks of steel . 1894 . London : Hutchinson . University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  9. Book: Lewis, Helen Prothero . Thraldom . 1903 . John Long . en.
  10. 11 August 1906 . A Spiritual Novel . Light . 26 . 377.
  11. News: 1921-09-17 . Social and Personal . 7 . Western Mail . 2023-08-26 . Newspapers.com.
  12. Webb, Mary. "The Bookman Gallery: Helen Prothero Lewis" The Bookman 69(410)(November 1925): 111.
  13. Book: Lewis, Helen Prothero . Like Any Other Man . 1923 . Hutchinson . en.
  14. February 9, 1924 . Books to Buy and Books to Keep . T. P.'s and Cassell's Weekly . 16 . 582.
  15. Autumn 1926 . A Woman in the Making (review) . The Bookman . 71 . 78 . Internet Archive.
  16. October 1928 . Notes on Recent Books . The Bookman . 75 . 445 . 28 . Internet Archive.
  17. News: 1943-06-01 . Obituary: Miss Agnes Anne Lewis . 3 . Western Mail . 2023-08-26 . Newspapers.com.

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