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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.
Ann Clwyd was born in Halkyn, Flintshire, in 1937, the daughter of Gwilym Henri Lewis and Elizabeth Ann Lewis, born and brought up in Pentre Halkyn, Flintshire.She was educated at Holywell Grammar School and the Queen's School, Chester, before graduating from the University of Wales, Bangor.
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.
This is an alphabetical list of Welsh women. A Jane Aaron (born 1951 ... Lucy Owen (born 1970), television news reader; Mary Owen (1796–1875), hymnwriter;
Sarah Jane Rees (9 January 1839 – 27 June 1916), also known by the bardic name "Cranogwen", was a Welsh teacher, poet, editor, master mariner and temperance campaigner. [1] She had two romantic friendships with women, first with 'Phania' Fanny Rees, until her death from tuberculosis, then with Jane Thomas, for most of the rest of Rees's life.
Smith was born on 15 March 1996 [1] in Salisbury in Wiltshire, and moved with her family to Llanfaes on the Isle of Anglesey aged seven. [2] She attended Ysgol David Hughes and later Coleg Menai, where she was the students' union president of Grŵp Llandrillo Menai.
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 ...
Amy Winifred Hawkins (née Evans, 24 January 1911 – 8 September 2021) was a Welsh supercentenarian and dancer from Monmouthshire in South Wales, who became famous for singing the World War I song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" [1] on her 110th birthday.