This month, 160 years ago, Arthur Llewelyn Jones came mewling into the world in the old Roman settlement of Caerleon in south-east Wales. The baby was born at the small family home in ‘The Square’ of the town. But Jones grew up in rural Llanddewi Fach, some five miles north of Caerleon, where his father was appointed vicar when the child was only two years old. So it was, that Jones’ formative years were in the atmospheric environs of the countryside of ‘legend-haunted’ Wales.
Arthur Machen, Haunter of a Haunted Land
Arthur Machen, Haunter of a Haunted Land
Arthur Machen, Haunter of a Haunted Land
This month, 160 years ago, Arthur Llewelyn Jones came mewling into the world in the old Roman settlement of Caerleon in south-east Wales. The baby was born at the small family home in ‘The Square’ of the town. But Jones grew up in rural Llanddewi Fach, some five miles north of Caerleon, where his father was appointed vicar when the child was only two years old. So it was, that Jones’ formative years were in the atmospheric environs of the countryside of ‘legend-haunted’ Wales.