Gweno Lewis

Gweno Lewis was brought up in Aberystwyth in Wales and was educated at the town's University College. In 1938 she joined Mountain Ash Grammar School as a Deputy Headmistress, from which she retired in 1974 to return to Aberystwyth and the family home. Although they had been at the same university she didn't meet Alun Lewis until 1939; they married in 1941. Gweno Lewis has previously edited Letters from India (1946) with Professor Gwyn Jones; In the Green Tree (1948); and Selected Poems of Alun Lewis (1981) with Jeremy Hooker.