Eluned Morgan (author)

Eluned Morgan (20 March 1870 – 29 December 1938) was a Welsh-language Argentinian author from Patagonia.

Her father eventually enrolled her in Dr Williams' School in Wales, where she had to learn the English language.

As a writer, Morgan is primarily remembered for two travel books which described journeys to Patagonia and to the Andes.

[1] The ship was en route from Great Britain to Patagonia in South America.

She was the daughter of Lewis Jones[1] who gave his name to the city of Trelew, in Chubut Province, Argentina.

In 1888, Morgan was sent by her father, Lewis Jones, from Patagonia to be educated at Dr Williams School in Dolgellau.

The dispute was only settled when Michael D. Jones, the founder of the Welsh colony in Patagonia, traveled from Bala to mediate.

She then returned to the Welsh colony in Patagonia, and started operating a boarding school for girls.

[1] In 1893, Morgan became an editor for the Welsh-language newspaper called Y Drafod,[1] which was founded that year by her father in order to promote Welshness in Y Wladfa.

Morgan wrote Dringo'r Andes, an account of early Welsh life in the Patagonian settlement including accounts of the relations between the Welsh, and the indigenous peoples in Argentina (which were good on the whole), the ruling Spaniards, and the immigrant Italians.