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Keir was born in St Davids, Pembrokeshire. [1] Her father was a weaver. [1]At age 21 she moved to Cardiff to work at Llandough Hospital. [1] She worked in the hospital during World War II and survived the Cardiff Blitz.
Elaine Morgan OBE, FRSL (7 November 1920 – 12 July 2013), [1] was a Welsh writer for television and the author of several books on evolutionary anthropology.She advocated the aquatic ape hypothesis, which advocated as a corrective to what she saw as theories that purveyed gendered stereotypes and failed to account for women's role in human evolution adequately.
Mavis Nicholson (née Mainwaring; 19 October 1930 – 8 September 2022) was a Welsh writer and radio and television broadcaster. She was born in Wales, and worked throughout the United Kingdom. She was born in Wales, and worked throughout the United Kingdom.
She was elected to Parliament in a by-election in May 1984 following the death of Ioan Evans, and became the first woman to sit for a Welsh valleys constituency. Her election came in the midst of the biggest industrial dispute since 1926, which was the 1984-85 coal miners' strike, in one of the mining constituencies most deeply affected
In 1866 her mother died. Between 1880 and her father's death in 1892 she had six novels published. [2] Following the deaths of her brother in 1890 and her father in 1892 Amy Dillwyn lost the family home at Hendrefoilan due to its being entailed to the male line, but inherited her father's debts of over £100,000 (£8 million or more today). She ...
Betsi Cadwaladr (24 May 1789 – 17 July 1860), also known as Beti Cadwaladr [1] Betsi Davis, [2] and Elizabeth Davis [3] was a Welsh nurse. She began nursing on travelling ships in her 30s (1820s) and later nursed in the Crimean War alongside Florence Nightingale.
100 Great Welsh Women was written by Terry Breverton and published in 2001. [1] Breverton is a historian who has written more than 20 books. [2] The books are typically on subjects related to Wales and include 100 Great Welshmen, An A-Z of Wales and the Welsh, The Secret Vale of Glamorgan and The Book of Welsh Saints.
Patti Flynn (born Patricia Maude Young, 1937 – 10 September 2020) was a Welsh jazz singer, author, model and social activist. [1] She was a founder and patron of Black History Wales. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2019 she was honoured with the Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association's (EMWWAA) Lifetime Achievement Award.