William David Owen

Owen was born at Ty Franan in Bodedern, Anglesey. He initially studied to be a teacher in Bangor, leading to him teaching in Clay Cross in Derbyshire, before studying law. Following a period of illness he returned to Anglesey and took up writing, contributing to a brochure advertising Rhosneigr. ==Publications==

Madam Wen was published in book form in 1925, but it had first appeared as a serial in the Welsh-language newspaper y Genedl Gymraeg (The Welsh Nation) in 1914. The first printed English edition of the story was published in an abridged form in October 2009, in a biographical work about the author by T. T. M. Hale, entitled The Rhosneigr Romanticist. There had been an earlier English translation of Madam Wen, which was handwritten and bound into a book by one named Richard Parry in 1937. ==Decease and family==

William David Owen died in 1925, barely two weeks after his novel was first published. ==Notes==