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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Nancy Lee (born 1970), Welsh-born short story writer, novelist, now in Canada; Ruby Levick (c.1872–1940), sculptor; Donna Lewis (born 1973), singer, musician; Eiluned Lewis (1900–1979), novelist, poet, journalist; Emmeline Lewis Lloyd (1827–1913), mountaineer; Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh-language poet, national poet of Wales, also ...
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.
After college Helen Thomas lived in Cardiff [3] and worked for Cardiff Women's Aid, [4] before becoming interested in the protest at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. She had been at the camp only two months [4] when she died in August 1989, from head injuries sustained when she was struck by a West Midlands Police vehicle, while waiting to cross a road near the airbase's main "Yellow Gate".
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.