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Alice Gray Jones

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After being educated at Dolbadarn Primary School and at Swansea Training College, she worked as a schoolteacher, eventually becoming head of the school at Dolbadarn which she had attended as a child. In 1881, she married the Rev William (or Williams) Jones. They had 4 children.
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The earliest of her poems in print were published in 1874, and by 1880 she was recognised as a poet, journalist and contributor to many periodicals. As "Ceridwen Peris", Jones wrote regularly for Welsh-language periodicals, including
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His ministry was at Four Crosses, Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, where she was involved in organising the local Temperance Union. In 1893, she became a governor of Pwllheli County School.
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In 1901, the magazine established worthwhile links with the trade union movement, that helped to increase its circulation. Sometime before 1917 she translated
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Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, ‘Williams, Alice Helena Alexandra (1863–1957)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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campaigner, and a co-founder of the North Wales Women's Temperance Union (Undeb Dirwestol Merched Gogledd Cymru).
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She died, aged 90, at her daughter's home in Bangor, and her papers were donated to
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in 1919, when her husband retired from the ministry and the couple relocated to
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Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity
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Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland
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Welsh writer, journal editor, temperance leader (1852–1943)
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She was born to David and Ellen Jones in the village of
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née
OBE
Welsh
Saint Peris
Llanberis
Llyn Peris
temperance

Trefor
Gwynedd
woollen mill
Sarah Jane Rees
temperance movement
Treason of the Blue Books
Alice Williams
bard
Criccieth
OBE
Bangor University




"Jones, Alice Gray ('Ceridwen Peris'; 1852 - 1943), author"
Dictionary of Welsh Biography
National Library of Wales
"Roberts, John John (Iolo Caernarfon; 1840 - 1914)"

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