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List Of Welsh Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Wales or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A *Jane Aaron (educator), Jane Aaron (born 1951), literature scholar, researcher and non-fiction writer *Jane Arden (director), Jane Arden (1927–1982), film director, actress, screenwriter, playwright and poet *Tiffany Atkinson (born 1972), poet, educator *Trezza Azzopardi (born 1961), novelist and short story writer: ''The Hiding Place (Azzopardi novel), The Hiding Place'' B *Mary Balogh (born 1944), Welsh-Canadian historical novelist *Rachel Barrett (1874–1953), suffragette and newspaper editor *Anne Beale (1816–1900), popular novelist, poet and children's writer *Anna Maria Bennett (c. 1750–1808), novelist *Ruth Bidgood (1922–2022), poet *Emily Rose Bleby (1849-1917), non-fiction writer and temperance activist *Natasha Bowen, Nigerian Welsh novelist *Jane Brereton (1685–1740), poet and contributor to ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' *Rhoda Broughton (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in 2021 of 3,107,500 and has a total area of . Wales has over of coastline and is largely mountainous with its higher peaks in the north and central areas, including Snowdon (), its highest summit. The country lies within the Temperateness, north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate. The capital and largest city is Cardiff. Welsh national identity emerged among the Celtic Britons after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the 5th century, and Wales was formed as a Kingdom of Wales, kingdom under Gruffydd ap Llywelyn in 1055. Wales is regarded as one of the Celtic nations. The Conquest of Wales by Edward I, conquest of Wales by Edward I of England was completed by 1283, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenda Chamberlain (artist)
Brenda Irene Chamberlain (17 March 1912 – 11 July 1971) was a Welsh artist, poet and writer. She won the first two Gold Medals awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales in the Fine Art category, for her paintings ''Girl with a Siamese Cat'' (1951) and ''The Cristin Children'' (1953), and her written works include ''Tide-race'', a memoir of 15 years spent living on Bardsey Island. An expatriate on the island of Hydra, Greece, from 1961 to 1967, she then returned to Wales, where she died in 1971. Her papers are preserved by the National Library of Wales; examples of her artworks are found in several collections. Early life and education Chamberlain was born in Bangor, the daughter of Francis Thomas Chamberlain and Elsie Cooil Chamberlain. Her father worked for the railway. Her mother served a term on the Bangor Borough Council, and was later Mayor of Bangor during World War II.Jill Piercy, ''Brenda Chamberlain: Artist and Writer'' (Parthian Books 2013). In 1931, Chamberla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Winifred Edwards
Fanny Winifred Edwards (21 February 1876 – 16 November 1959) was a school teacher, children's author and dramatist. She was born, lived, worked and died near Ffestiniog in North Wales: her writing was in the Welsh language. Life Edwards was born in Penrhyndeudraeth, a large village that became notable, during the war torn years of the early twentieth century, as a manufacturing centre for gun cotton. Her father, William Edwards, was a master mariner: several of her brothers also became sea-farers. Her twelve recorded siblings included the poet William Thomas Edwards (1863–1940). She attended school in Penrhyndeudraeth, becoming a pupil-teacher and, subsequently, a permanent teacher. By the time of her retirement at the end of 1944 she had taught at the school for more than fifty years. In the south of the country the Welsh language was in retreat due to the large-scale immigration from England that accompanied industrialisation, and Edwards became conscious of a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Edwards (Welsh Novelist)
Dorothy Edwards (18 August 1902 – 5 January 1934) was a Welsh novelist who wrote in English. She became associated with David Garnett and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she stated in a note before committing suicide that she had "accepted kindness and friendship and even love without gratitude, and given nothing in return." Upbringing Edwards was born at Ogmore Vale, Glamorgan, the only child of Edward Edwards and his wife Vida. Her father was head of Tynewydd School, Ogmore Vale, where her mother had also worked before her marriage, and was a significant person in the Independent Labour Party and the British co-operative movement. Through him, Dorothy met notable socialists, including Keir Hardie and George Lansbury. At nine years old and dressed in red, she welcomed Hardie onto the stage in Tonypandy during the national coal strike of 1912. Dorothy was taught to believe that a revolution was at hand and class and gender-based divisions would soon crumble, but as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Dillwyn
Elizabeth Amy Dillwyn (16 May 1845 – 13 December 1935) was a Welsh novelist, businesswoman, and social benefactor. She was one of the first female industrialists in Britain. Born in Sketty, Swansea, Dillwyn was a member of a prominent family. Her father was industrialist and politician Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, her older sister was lepidopterist Mary De la Beche Nicholl, her paternal uncle was botanist and photographer John Dillwyn Llewelyn, her paternal aunt was photographer Mary Dillwyn, and her paternal first cousin was astronomer and photographer Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn. Dillwyn's paternal grandfather was the businessman, naturalist, and politician Lewis Weston Dillwyn, while her maternal grandfather was geologist and palaeontologist Henry De la Beche. Dillwyn's paternal great-grandfather was the American abolitionist William Dillwyn, who had migrated to Great Britain. From the 1870s to the early 1890s, Dillwyn, wrote 6 novels. Her themes included feminism, social reform, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Davies (poet)
Mary Davies (17 October 1846 – 8 October 1882), also known as Mair Eifion, was a Welsh poet writing in the Welsh language. Biography Mary Davies was born 17 October 1846, in Portmadoc (so spelt at the time), North Wales, where she resided for the whole of her life. She was the eldest daughter of Captain Lewis Davies and his wife Jennet, who ran the ''Tregunter Arms'', a public house in Portmadoc. She was educated at a private school there, maintained by a daughter of the writer William Rees, better known by his bardic name Gwilym Hiraethog. Verse and appreciation Mary Davies displayed from a young age a talent for writing poetry. Her work began to be published in the periodical '' Y Dysgedydd'', which was edited in 1853–1873 by William Ambrose (Emrys), a mentor of hers, along with Ioan Madog (John Williams, 1812–1878). After she had begun to win prizes locally for her poems and essays, Davies was admitted to the Gorsedd circle at the 1875 National Eisteddfod in Pwllhel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Davies (writer)
Margaret Davies or Marged Dafydd (c. 1700–1778 or 1785) was a Welsh poet, scribe and manuscript collector. Her work led to the survival of many printed and handwritten poems in Welsh, which she wrote into her manuscripts. Several of these and the names and identities of their writers have survived only in her copies. Early life Davies was born in Coetgae-du, near Trawsfynydd in north-west Wales. Career Davies was one several north-western Welsh women poets, including Margaret Rowlands and Alis ach Wiliam, who travelled to meet with each other and trade poems. Like the pioneering poet Angharad James, born in the previous generation, those in this informal group were relatively privileged economically, with money and leisure time to make poetry writing and travel feasible. In addition to her contacts in Snowdonia, Davies also corresponded with male poets of the London Celticism movement. No poems of hers were published in her lifetime. Davies spent much of her time collecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Kay Davies
Deborah Kay Davies is a Welsh poet, writer, and educator. She received her PhD from Cardiff University. In 2009 she received a Wales Book of the Year for English-language for the short story collection ''Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful'' (2008). Her novels are ''True Things About Me'' (2010) and ''Reasons She Goes to the Woods'' (2014). Born in Pontypool, South Wales, in 2014 she was living in Cardiff. She was an educator of creative writing at both Cardiff University and the University of Glamorgan. The film '' True Things'' (2021) is based on her novel, ''True Things About Me''. Books *''Things You Think I Don't Know'', 2006, Cardigan: Parthian Books *''Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful'', 2008, Cardigan: Parthian Books *''True Things About Me'', 2010 (Edinburgh: Canongate Books); London: Faber and Faber Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Glyn Davies
Catherine "Caryl" Glyn Davies (née Catherine Glyn Jones; 26 September 1926 – 22 February 2007) was a Welsh historian of philosophy and linguistics, and a translator. Biography Catherine Glyn Jones was born in Trealaw, Glamorgan, on 26 September 1926. Her father, William Glyn Jones (1883–1958), was a minister, and she was the eldest of four. She attended Porth county school, and in 1946, she graduated with first-class honours in French, before receiving honours in philosophy from the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth. She furthered her studies at the university and graduated in 1949 with a Masters, for which she produced the thesis ''A critical study of John Locke's examination of Père Malebranche's opinion of seeing all things in God''. She spent a year at Sorbonne in Paris after winning a Kemsley travelling fellowship. She studied the philosophic relations between England and France in the late 17th century at Sorbonne, before returning and enrolling at Somerville C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fflur Dafydd
Fflur Dafydd (born 1 August 1978) is a Welsh novelist, singer-songwriter and musician. Though mainly publishing in Welsh, she also writes in English. She contributes regularly in Welsh to Radio Cymru. Early life Dafydd is the daughter of Welsh poet Menna Elfyn and a cousin of BBC broadcaster Bethan Elfyn. She grew up in Llandysul, a Welsh-speaking community, and although she received the majority of her education in Welsh, she chose to study English in higher education. She graduated in English from Aberystwyth University. While she was there she first came to prominence as a student in 1999, by winning the Literature Medal at the Urdd National Eisteddfod at Lampeter. This success led to the publication of ''Y Gwir Am Gelwydd'' (''The Truth About Lies''), a collection of 12 poems and five short stories. After graduating from Aberystwyth, she gained an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in 2000, followed by a PhD on the poetry of R. S. Thomas from Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Cresswell
Jasmine Rosemary Cresswell (born 1941 in Wales) is a best-selling author of over 50 romance novels as Jasmine Cresswell and Jasmine Craig. Biography Jasmine Rosemary Cresswell was born in Wales and educated in London. After graduating early from high school, Cresswell received a diploma in technical French and German from the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London. She then joined the British Foreign office and worked for the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, where she met her husband, Malcolm Candlish. The two have lived all over the world, including Australia, Canada, and the United States. Cresswell received a bachelor's degree in history and philosophy from Melbourne University, a degree in history from Macquarie University, and a master's degree in history and archival administration from Case Western Reserve University. Cresswell began writing in 1975, and has more than 9 million copies of her books in print. She has also written romances under the name Jasmine Cra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafina Clwyd
Hafina Clwyd (1 July 1936 – 14 March 2011) was a Welsh educator, writer and journalist. She had a weekly column in the '' Western Mail''."Hafina Clwyd: Perceptive and Vivacious Journalist Unafraid of Courting Controversy in Both English and Welsh" ''Independent'' (21 March 2011). Early life and education Mair Hafina Clwyd Jones was born at , and raised on a farm at |
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