Rocking the Boat: Welsh Women Who Championed Equality 1840-1990 (Modern Wales)

This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Written by an acclaimed biographical historian, the essays not only challenge expectations about how women's lives were lived in the last two centuries, they also explore different ways of approaching biographical writing and understanding, as well as raising issues of gender and nationality.From the pioneer doctor and champion of progressive causes, Frances Hoggan, to the irrepressible twentieth-century novelist Menna Gallie, these women spoke out for what they believed in, and sometimes they paid the price.Although proud of their Welsh identity, they articulated it in a variety of ways, and each spent most of their adult lives outside Wales.They became familiar, and often controversial voices, on the page and platform in London, Oxford, Northern Ireland and internationall