![]() In the economic sphere, Welsh coal mines had helped fuel the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, bringing fortune both to Wales itself and to Britain as a whole. Wales’s vital role in the economic and political life of Great Britain forms the backdrop to Swansea’s prosperity during the era in which Thomas grew up. Events in History at the Time the Short Story Takes Place Economic and political background The seaside town was a small world of its own-beyond which from the child’s point of view lay a bigger world of mystery and excitement. ![]() Like his other autobiographical writings, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is packed with details that vividly illustrate what life was like for a child growing up in Wales between the world wars. Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was born in 1914, the year that World War I began, in Swansea, on Wales’s southern coast. ![]() The narrator remembers his childhood Christmases in a busy Welsh port town.Įvents in History at the Time the Short Story Takes PlaceĮvents in History at the Time the Short Story Was Written ![]() ![]() A short story set in Swansea, Wales, in the early to mid-1920s published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1950 and in Thomas’s collection of autobiographical sketches, Quite Early One Morning, in 1954. ![]()
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