Josepha Heath Gulston

Josepha Heath Gulston
portrait by William Charles Thomas Dobson
Born23 February 1811 Edit this on Wikidata
Died15 November 1859 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 48)
Grosvenor Square Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationNovelist Edit this on Wikidata
Parent(s)
  • Joseph Gulston Edit this on Wikidata
  • Anna Maria Knowles Edit this on Wikidata

Josepha Heath Gulston (23 February 1811 – 15 November 1859) was a Welsh novelist. She published five novels in the 1850s under the pseudonym Talbot Gwynne.

She was the eldest daughter of Joseph Gulston, owner of the Derwydd estate in Carmarthenshire, and Anna Maria Knowles.[1][2] Her novel The School for Fathers was read by Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, and her novel Young Singleton may have been an influence on Eliot's Daniel Deronda.[3][4] She also published a children's fantasy story with lithographed illustrations called The Goblin's Moonlight Walk in 1844.[5]

  1. ^ Historical Society of West Wales (1917). West Wales historical records. Annual magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. Carmarthen, Printed by W. Spurrell and son.
  2. ^ Notes and Queries 1917-07: Vol 3 Iss 70. Oxford Publishing Limited(England). July 1917.
  3. ^ Shorter, Clement King (1908). The Brontës; life and letters, being an attempt to present a full and final record of the lives of the three sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë from the biographies of Mrs. Gaskell and others, and from numerous hitherto unpublished MSS. and letters. Robarts - University of Toronto. New York Hodder and Stoughton.
  4. ^ Szirotny, June Skye (2001-06-01). ""The Terrible Possibilities of Crime": Gwendolen Harleth and Richard Singleton". English Language Notes. 38 (4): 52–57. doi:10.1215/00138282-38.4.52. ISSN 0013-8282.
  5. ^ McGrath, Leslie (1999). A handbook to the Osborne collection. Toronto, Ont.: Children's Books History Society.