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Gwerful Mechain (15th century), Welsh-language poet; 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
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She was a skilled harpist who commanded her workers to dance to her playing as they returned from the milking. [2]She is notable as an early Welsh female poet. [7] Due in part to the transcription work of one of James's correspondents, the poet and copyist Margaret Davies, [8] manuscripts of James's work have survived and are held at the National Library of Wales. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
Katherine or Catherine Philips (née Fowler; 1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664), also known as "The Matchless Orinda", was an Anglo-Welsh royalist poet, translator, and woman of letters. She achieved renown as a translator of Pierre Corneille 's Pompée and Horace , and for her editions of poetry after her death.
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.
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 ...