Y Stafell Ddirgel (in English, The Secret Room) is a novel by Marion Eames written in the Welsh language and first published in 1969.[1] An English translation was published in 1975 under the title The Secret Room. In 2001 a highly successful television adaptation appeared on S4C.[2]
The novel is concerned with the persecution of Quakers in North Wales during the seventeenth century.[3] A sequel by Eames, Y Rhandir Mwyn (The Gentle Region) (1990), continues the story. Y Stafell Ddirgel has been a set book for GCSE Welsh Literature students.[4]
- ^ Meic Stephens, ed. (1998). The New Companion to the Literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 537. ISBN 9780708313831.
- ^ BBC Bitesize (Welsh)
- ^ BBC North West Wales History: The Quakers of Dolgellau, 17 January 2008. Accessed 9 January 2013
- ^ "Y Stafell Ddirgel – Llyfr adolygu TGAU". Atebol. Retrieved 19 November 2024.