Daniel Owen

About Daniel Owen

Birth Day: October 20, 1836
Birth Place: Mold, Wales
Died On: Oct 22, 1895 (age 59)
Birth Sign: Libra

Daniel Owen Net Worth

Daniel Owen was born on October 20, 1836 in Mold, Wales. Considered the most important nineteenth-century Welsh novelist, Owen famously penned an 1885 Welsh-language work titled Rhys Lewis. His other well-known novels include Enoc Huws (1891) and Gwen Tomos (1894).
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💰Daniel Owen Net worth: $23 million

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About

Considered the most important nineteenth-century Welsh Novelist, Owen famously penned an 1885 Welsh-language work titled Rhys Lewis. His other well-known novels include Enoc Huws (1891) and Gwen Tomos (1894).

Before Fame

Before publishing his debut novel, Y Dreflan, in 1881, Owen penned a number of poems under the pen name "Glaslwyn."

Trivia

He trained to become a Methodist minister but abandoned this career goal to work as a tailor and Writer.

Family Life

He grew up in Mold, Flintshire, Wales, as the son of coal miner Robert Owen. Tragically, his father, as well as his brothers Robert Jr. and James, died in a late 1830s mining disaster.

Associated With

He translated American Writer Timothy Shay Arthur's most famous work, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, into the Welsh language.