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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.
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 ...
Monumental Welsh Women is a project to provide the first five statues of real Welsh women in Wales. [1] It was started by a group of women, including Helen Molyneux, in 2016 and later became formalised as the not-for-profit Monumental Welsh Women Ltd. They work with other organisations, such as public art specialist group Studio Response, to ...
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.
The Welsh Mam (mam means "mother" in Welsh) was an archetypal image of Welsh married women, especially popular in 19th-century industrial South Wales, and depictions of that place and era. The mythologised Welsh Mam was seen as a matriarch [ 1 ] ruling her household, [ 2 ] "the pivot, around which all family life revolved". [ 3 ]
Monumental Welsh Women This page was last edited on 14 January 2025, at 02:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Nia Medi, since 2005, Welsh-language novelist and actress; Dorothy Miles (1931–1993), poet, in English and sign language; Moelona, pen name of Elizabeth Mary Jones (1877–1953), Welsh-language novelist, children's writer and translator; Jan Morris (born James Morris, 1926–2020), Welsh historian and travel writer
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.