His father worked in hotel management, and Llewellyn at first followed him into that business but left to join the army in 1926, serving in India and Hong Kong. Llewellyn claimed to have been born in Wales, but although he was of Welsh descent, he was actually born in a suburb of London, England, on December 8, 1906. He also went by the name Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd. Richard Llewellyn was the pen name of Richard Herbert Vivian Lloyd. There is also some description of violence and use of mild profanity.Īlthough Welsh commentators have criticized the novel for inaccuracies in its portrayal of Wales, it has come to be seen as a portrayal of the essence of Welshness, but the true source of its appeal may have less to do with its specific Welsh setting than with its universal themes of loss and nostalgia. It is in part a coming-of-age tale, including a sensitive portrayal of Huw's romantic initiation.
Told as a reminiscence of happier times, the novel has a sad, sentimental tone, describing the passing away of many people in Huw's life as well as the loss of his valley's greenness. It tells the story of Huw Morgan, the son and brother of coal miners in south Wales at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, focusing on the destruction of his green valley by the spread of coal mining and the slag heap (a pile of waste material that is a by-product of mining). How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn's best-known work, a bestselling novel that was first published in 1939 and was made into a popular movie in 1941.
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