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Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel by John Cowper Powys was first published in America in January 1941, and in the UK in February 1942.Issued 24 January 1941 in the USA and 6 February 1942 in the UK (not published in 1940 and 1941 as shown in the Read More..

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Description	Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel by John Cowper Powys was first published in America in January 1941, and in the UK in February 1942.Issued 24 January 1941 in the USA and 6 February 1942 in the UK (not published in 1940 and 1941 as shown in the texts). Dante Thomas, A Bibliography of the Principal Writings of John Cowper Powys, unpublished Ph.D thesis (State University of New York at Albany, 1971), p. 55. Powys returned to Britain from the USA in 1934, with his lover Phyllis Playter, living first in Dorchester, where he began Maiden Castle. However, in July, 1935 they moved to the village of Corwen, Denbighshire, North Wales, historically part of Edeirnion or Edeyrnion, an ancient commote of medieval Wales that was once part of the Kingdom of Powys, where he completed Maiden Castle (1936).Morine Krissdóttir, A Descents of Memory. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2007, p. 323. This move to the land of his ancestors led Powys to write this, the first of two historical novels set in this region of Wales; the other was ' (1951). Owen, Powys's ninth novel, reflects "his increasing sense of what he thought of as his bardic heritage."Richard Percival Graves, The Brothers Powys. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1984), pp.2 51,267; Margaret Drabble, "The English degenerate", The Guardian, 12 August 2006. Retrieved 8 August 2012Powys has used Shakespeare's anglicised version of Owain Glyndŵr's name, "Owen Glendower" for the title of his novel. However, within the novel, he uses Owen Glyn Dŵr (sic) (most often just Owen). He also refers to Glyndŵr, as "Owen ap Griffith" or "son of Griffith Fychan" (Welsh: Owain ap Gruffydd)
Description	Owen Glendower: An Historical Novel by John Cowper Powys was first published in America in January 1941, and in the UK in February 1942.Issued 24 January 1941 in the USA and 6 February 1942 in the UK (not published in 1940 and 1941 as shown in the texts). Dante Thomas, A Bibliography of the Principal Writings of John Cowper Powys, unpublished Ph.D thesis (State University of New York at Albany, 1971), p. 55. Powys returned to Britain from the USA in 1934, with his lover Phyllis Playter, living first in Dorchester, where he began Maiden Castle. However, in July, 1935 they moved to the village of Corwen, Denbighshire, North Wales, historically part of Edeirnion or Edeyrnion, an ancient commote of medieval Wales that was once part of the Kingdom of Powys, where he completed Maiden Castle (1936).Morine Krissdóttir, A Descents of Memory. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2007, p. 323. This move to the land of his ancestors led Powys to write this, the first of two historical novels set in this region of Wales; the other was ' (1951). Owen, Powys's ninth novel, reflects "his increasing sense of what he thought of as his bardic heritage."Richard Percival Graves, The Brothers Powys. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1984), pp.2 51,267; Margaret Drabble, "The English degenerate", The Guardian, 12 August 2006. Retrieved 8 August 2012Powys has used Shakespeare's anglicised version of Owain Glyndŵr's name, "Owen Glendower" for the title of his novel. However, within the novel, he uses Owen Glyn Dŵr (sic) (most often just Owen). He also refers to Glyndŵr, as "Owen ap Griffith" or "son of Griffith Fychan" (Welsh: Owain ap Gruffydd)

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Name	Owen Glendower
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Authors	John Cowper Powys
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Genre	Historical novel
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Language	English
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Country	England
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Publisher	Simon and Schuster, New York
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Pub_date	1941Issued 24 January 1941 in the USA. Dante Thomas, A Bibliography of the Principal Writings of John Cowper Powys, unpublished Ph.D thesis (State University of New York at Albany, 1971), pp. 54-6.
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Release_date	1941Issued 24 January 1941 in the USA. Dante Thomas, A Bibliography of the Principal Writings of John Cowper Powys, unpublished Ph.D thesis (State University of New York at Albany, 1971), pp. 54-6.
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