Sketches of a Tour in Wales

Name of traveller

Mark Luke Louis (1786-18??)

Reason for travel

• immigrant from France after Napoleonic wars

Date of travel

undated, circa 1830s

Content

• customs:
  • eisteddfodau
  • notes on Welsh superstitions
• education: literacy in Wales comparatively high
• history:
  • Wales as long resistant to invasion and place of refuge from Saxon invaders
  • Welsh history as history of colonisation
• language:
  • preservation of Welsh language compared to fates of other invaded nations
  • general rise of English everywhere
• people: references to Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798)
• terrain: notes urbanisation of towns in north Wales, especially Rhyl
• compare with earlier and later accounts of tours through north Wales

Nationality of traveller

French

Language of publication

English

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

travel guide; travelogue

Citation

Louis, M[ark] L[uke]. Sketches of a Tour in Wales. Liverpool: John Tompkins, 1839. Print.