This blog is created for the followers of Brian John's Angel Mountain Saga of eight novels, dealing with the life and times of a very imperfect heroine, Mistress Martha Morgan of Plas Ingli. She lived at about the same time as Jane Austen but struggled to survive in a very different world. Total sales for the series are now over 110,000, making this the best-selling fiction series ever published in Wales.
Saturday, 1 March 2014
Happy St David's Day!
Greetings to everybody on this auspicious day! (Wales should really be playing England today of course, but since that might have given the men in red some sort of psychological advantage, the powers that be put it off till next Saturday. Disgraceful.....)
A nice photo of Carningli to celebrate with. I don't need to explain that this little mountain is the focal point of all eight of the Angel Mountain stories, featuring the indomitable and incorrigible Martha Morgan.
Thinking of which, why are we so preoccupied with St David or Dewi Sant -- patron saint and father figure? In these days of sexual equality, should we not also be celebrating the life of a maternal figure or role model? Mother Wales? If you are looking for Mother Wales, look no further than Martha Morgan........ in all her delightful complexity.......
http://www.brianjohn.co.uk/about-martha.html
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