Honno Information

Honno is managed by an enthusiastic committee of volunteer women from Wales, who meet regularly to support the staff, discuss the books, manage the finances and determine the strategic direction of Honno. They have a wide mix of different work experiences and are from all over Wales. Our only rules for committee members are that they must be Welsh women and Honno shareholders - and Honno cannot publish books by committee members. Currently the Honno Committee Members are: Jane Aaron: Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of South Wales, is the editor of the Honno Classics English-language series (known as the Welsh Women's Classics). Born in Aberystwyth, she has now returned to the town and taken up her old place on the Honno Committee once again. Her publications include Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Lln Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg (1998), which won the Ellis Griffith prize in 1999, and Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales (2007), winner of the Roland Mathias Award in 2009. She also co-edited the essay collections Our Sisters' Land: The Changing Identities of Women in Wales (1994), Postcolonial Wales (2005) and Gendering Border Studies (2010). Eurwen Booth found Honno its present home in Ceredigion and successfully applied for funding for office space and computer equipment - also housing a whole stock of books at home during the process! She was the assistant to Honno's first funded editor, Elin ap Hywel. She assists with Honno's proofreading, translation and the Clasuron Honno. Cathryn Charnell-White: For Cathryn Charnell-White an eighteenth-century specialist and editor of an anthology of Early Modern Welsh women's poetry (Beirdd Ceridwen), her involvement with the Honno committee is an extension of her interest in Welsh literature and women's studies. Cathryn is Head of the Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University. Nicola Craddock was fortunate enough to work for Honno as the Marketing Manager when she lived in Aberystwyth in the early 2000's. She is ...