From the Foreword:

This book, for the first time, brings Edward Evan of Ton Coch fully into view. Poet and minister, farmer, musician, neighbour, husband, father, his long life spanned a period of intellectual and economic change whose impact would come into dizzying effect with the massive industrialization of the valleys in the following century. James Stewart’s vivid and sympathetic portrayal of Evan and his world offers multiple windows onto the eighteenth century across south Wales. 

Mary-Ann Constantine

University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies