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Emily Jane Pfeiffer (26 November 1827 – 23 January 1890, née Davis) was a Welsh poet and philanthropist. [1] She supported women's suffrage and higher education for women, as well as producing feminist poems. [2] Pfeiffer was born Montgomeryshire, but spent much of her early life in Oxfordshire. She was the granddaughter of a banker, but her ...
From speaking out over domestic abuse in medieval times to telling the realities of war, these female poets present a very different version of Welsh life. Four women poets who will take you on an ...
Elfyn has published ten volumes of poetry and a dozen more of children's books and anthologies. She has also written eight plays for the stage, six radio plays for the BBC, and two plays and several documentaries for television. She co-edited The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry with John Rowlands, which won a Poetry Book Society ...
Dorothy "Dot" Miles (née Squire; 19 August 1931 - 30 January 1993) was a Welsh poet and activist in the Deaf community. Throughout her life, she composed her poems in English, British Sign Language, and American Sign Language. Her work laid the foundations for modern sign language poetry in the United States and the United Kingdom. She is ...
Cranogwen (1839-1916), one of the few prominent female poets in Welsh of the 20th century. The world of the Eisteddfod and Welsh public life generally in the 19th century was dominated by men, however, female poets were able to break through, perhaps assisted by the Eisteddfod tradition of anonymous submission to competitions.
Ann's poems express her fervent Christian faith and reflect her incisive intellect and thorough scriptural knowledge. She is the most prominent female hymnist in Welsh. Her work is regarded as a highlight of Welsh literature, and her longest poem Rhyfedd, rhyfedd gan angylion...