100 Greatest Welsh Women

Author: Terry Breverton

ISBN: 9781903529300
Publication Date: 03 November 2017
Publisher: Glyndŵr Publishing, St. Athan
Format: Paperback, 229x152 mm, 418 pages
Language: English

A celebration of the world-wide contribution of one hundred Welsh women in fields of literature and the arts, politics and religion, philosophy and industry, pioneering and education, sport and entertainment.

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Did you know that the Britons can boast hundreds of female saints, one of whom has the oldest continuously worshipped well in Europe, as well the female Valentine, Arthur’s queen, an unknown Queen of England, the first woman poet, the inspiration for The Bible Society, the real 'Lady of the Lamp', the ‘First Lady of the Confederate States of America’, the tutor to the Children of the King of Siam, the first British female physician, ‘one of the finest painters of our time and country’, the pioneering bacteriologist responsible for pasteurised milk, a leading actress for eight decades, the ‘Queen of Hollywood’, the founder of a global fabric empire, ‘the most successful British singer, a fashion icon who gave us the mini-skirt, the ‘Best Female Singer in the Last Fifty Years’, one of the 20th century's greatest sopranos, the first folk artist to play Carnegie Hall, the Greenham Common martyr, and the most successful Paralympic athlete in the world?