Resistance

Mary Jones was born in Aberystwyth in 1942 and was educated in St Padarn's Convent School before studying English under William Empson at Sheffield University. After graduation she did a year's voluntary service overseas in Ramallah, Jordan, before returning to Sheffield University to do an MA by research on the writings of David Jones. In 1969 she was appointed lecturer in English at the University of Ulster where she worked until retirement in 2002. Resistance, her first and only novel, was originally published in 1985 by The Blackstaff Press and won the Welsh Arts Council Fiction Prize in 1986. Mary Jones lives in County Antrim.

"One of the most accomplished examples of twentieth-century Welsh Female Gothic" - Kirsti Bohata, Female Gothic: New Directions"The novel is painstakingly constructed [...] The humour wonderfully black." - John Hanratty, Books Ireland