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1. As many will know Beatrix Potter wrote the stories about Peter Rabbit and his friends. But, do you know where in Wales she set the stories?
2. Rupert Bear appeared in his own books as well as in newspaper comic strips. His adventues were based in what part of Wales?
3. 'Lorna Doone' was written by R.D. Blackmore and is set in or around the West Country. However, Blackmore spent time in the South Wales area as guest of his uncle the Vicar of Neath and he used the coastal area of South Wales as the setting for another of his romantic and dramatic novels. What was it called?
4. Dylan Thomas came from Swansea. He spent some time in Laugharne where he wrote 'Under Milk Wood'. The fictitious name he gave for the sea village featured in this work was called what?
5. Lawrence, apparently was 'of Arabia' when he was described in military terms. But he was an author as well as a military hero. He was born in Wales. Do you know where?
6. Long before he started writing crime fiction Dick Francis was a jockey and a very famous one at that. His love of horses may well have been nurtured in the rural county of Wales where he was born. Name the county of his birth please?
7. This heroic King of England presented a very famous and strirring speech - well at least Shakespeare would have us so believe.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead."
But in which town in Wales was he born?
8. This author was a true literary giant of his times. He became the first Welsh person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1950). Known to the world as Bertrand Russell.
Do you know the name of the beautiful part of south-east Wales (near Monmouth) where he was born?
9. Possessor of a fine Welsh name Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd was born in 1906 in a part of London more usually associated with graduating law enforcers.
Much of his literary output was set in his beloved Wales including his most famous work was 'How Green Was My Valley', which was made into a Hollywood film much praised at the time.
Where was he born?
10. It is rarely disputed in Wales that Arthur was a Prince of Wales. This is not a view shared by those of other cultures across Offa's Dyke and the 'silvern' Severn. This author Geoffrey a Norman aristocrat and historian produced tales of the early British which defintely, according to his version, made Arthur Welsh. So where did this Geoffrey come from and how is he usually decribed?
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