The Rebecca Riots in Popular Culture
The Rebecca Riots were the setting for the novel, Hosts of Rebecca, by Alexander Cordell, Blorenge Books, ISBN 1-872730-19-1
One of the earliest novels about the Rebecca Riots was written by Welsh author Amy Dillwyn, who wrote "The Rebecca Rioters", first published in 1880. ISBN 978-1-870206-43-3
In 1948 Dylan Thomas wrote the screenplay for a film, Rebecca's Daughters, which was published as a novel of the same name in 1965. The film was not released until 1992, and starred Peter O'Toole, Paul Rhys and Joely Richardson. The forty-four years between the writing of the screenplay and the release of the film is the longest on record.
The name of Rebecca is also mentioned in the context of the Merthyr Rising of 1831 in the song "Ironmasters" by the British folkpunk band The Men They Couldn't Hang on their album "Night of a Thousand Candles".
The phrase "The Rebeccas ride at dawn, petticoat ghost and Tom. Working to reclaim the land for no reward" is found in the song "Newtown Jericho" from rock band The Alarm.
A transgender activist Motorcycle Club named after Rebecca and her Daughters exists and draws heavily upon the Rebecca symbols and terminology.
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