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Lewis Jones


Born
in Clydach Vale, Wales, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1897

Died
January 27, 1939

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Born in Clydach Vale in 1897, Lewis Jones began work underground at the age of twelve. He worked for the National Unemployed Workers' Movement, was elected a County Councillor in 1936, and died in 1939 after a day of speaking at numerous public meetings in support of the Spanish Civil War.

Stephen Knight described Jones' work as novelist thus: "Lewis Jones produced two novels that remain classics of international industrial fiction and testify to the oppressed but resistant and creative character of industrial South Wales."
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Cwmardy / We Live

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Cwmardy

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We Live

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Dracula

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SOS in Space

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How Life Began

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