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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.
Joan, Lady Curran (26 February 1916 – 10 February 1999), born Joan Elizabeth Strothers, was a Welsh physicist who played important roles in the development of radar and the atomic bomb during the Second World War. She devised a method of releasing chaff, a radar countermeasure technique credited with reducing losses among Allied bomber crews.
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.
Joan and her affair with William de Braose is the subject of Saunders Lewis's Welsh-language verse play Siwan. Edith Pargeter's novel The Green Branch is set in Wales and the Welsh Marches in 1228–1231, when Llewelyn ruled Gwynedd and most of the rest of Wales. [10]
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.
Born in Sketty, Swansea, Dillwyn was a member of a prominent family.Her father was the industrialist and politician Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, her older sister was the lepidopterist Mary De la Beche Nicholl, her paternal uncle was the botanist and photographer John Dillwyn Llewelyn, her paternal aunt was the photographer Mary Dillwyn, and her paternal first cousin was the astronomer and ...
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 ...
The life and death of Sarah Jacob have been featured in various works of fiction, including the Welsh-language novel Sarah Arall (1982), by Aled Islwyn, and a play by Gwenlyn Parry, entitled Sal. [6] Emma Donoghue's 2016 novel, The Wonder, and the film of the same name based upon it, take much of their inspiration from the Sarah Jacob case. [7]