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J. C. Manning
A late-Victorian British journalist and poet, best remembered for prize-winning verse tied to the Welsh Eisteddfod tradition. His work blends public poetry, religious themes, and the literary life of Swansea and South Wales.
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About the author
J. C. Manning was a British journalist, author, and poet active in the late Victorian period. Sources available online describe him as a resident of Swansea who later lived in London, and as a frequent contributor to the South Wales press.
He is best known for The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses, a collection published in 1877. The book presents him as "J. C. Manning" of Swansea and links him with success at the Welsh National Eisteddfod, where he competed as an English-language bard.
Some library-style sources give his life dates only approximately, around 1828 to 1907, so those details should be treated with a little caution. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found on the pages reviewed.