Menna Patricia Humphreys Gallie (18 March 1919 – 17 June 1990)[1] was a Welsh novelist and translator.
She is best known for her novels in the English language, and as the translator of Caradog Prichard's Un Nos Ola Leuad, under the title Full Moon.
Menna Patricia Humphreys was born in Ystradgynlais, and attended Swansea University, where she met the philosopher W. B. Gallie.
[7] The Small Mine (1962) tells the tale of a young collier's death in an industrial accident in the same fictional village created in Strike for a Kingdom.
Travels with a Duchess (1968) is the journey of a menopausal wife from Cardiff who loses her luggage en route to Yugoslavia and abandons her usual ways in favour of adventure and 'debauchery'.