In the category of ‘people who should be better known’ I’d really like to nominate Dorothy Bonarjee, an Indian student at Aberystwyth University who won the poetry prize at the college’s annual Eisteddfod in 1914. She sounds like such a remarkable woman, and I’m fascinated that she continued to contribute to Welsh culture through magazines like Welsh
Outlook even after she left Wales. Read the article - if anyone deserves a biopic, she does!
Category: dorothy bonarjee
“So I must give thee up – not with the glow Of those who losing much yet rather gain. But losing all….”
“So I must give thee up - not with the glow
Of those who losing much yet rather gain.
But losing all. Did never martyr go
Along the bleeding road of useless pain?
Did never one held prisoner by a creed,
Obsessed by stern heroic ghosts, made dumb
By those who answered duty to his need,
With faithless loathing feet to his fate come?”
- Dorothy Bonarjee, from Renunciation.
Of those who losing much yet rather gain.
But losing all. Did never martyr go
Along the bleeding road of useless pain?
Did never one held prisoner by a creed,
Obsessed by stern heroic ghosts, made dumb
By those who answered duty to his need,
With faithless loathing feet to his fate come?”
- Dorothy Bonarjee, from Renunciation.