# 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 (born 1951), literature scholar, researcher and non-fiction writer
* 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

## 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 (1840–1920), novelist and short story writer
* Fanny Bulkeley-Owen (1845–1927), historian and author

## C

* Catrin ferch Gruffudd ap Hywel (fl. 1555), poet
* Brenda Chamberlain (1912–1971), artist and poet
* Grace Coddington (born 1941), fashion writer, director of Vogue, memoirist
* Gillian Clarke (born 1937), poet, playwright, translator and broadcaster
* Hafina Clwyd (1936–2011), educator and journalist
* Jasmine Cresswell (born 1941), novelist

## D

* Fflur Dafydd (born 1978), novelist, playwright, poet and singer, in Welsh and English
* Catherine Glyn Davies (1926–2007), historian and translator
* Deborah Kay Davies, contemporary poet, novelist and educator
* Margaret Davies (fl. 1700s), poet and scribe
* Mary Davies (1846–1882), poet
* Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935), novelist and industrialist

## E

* Dorothy Edwards (1903–1934), fiction writer
* Fanny Winifred Edwards (1876–1959), children's author, dramatist and schoolteacher
* Rhian Edwards (active from 2000s), poet
* Sally El Hosaini (born 1976), British-Egyptian film director and screenwriter
* Elen Egryn (1807–1897), Welsh-language poet
* Menna Elfyn (born 1952), Welsh-language poet, playwright, columnist and editor
* Christine Evans (born 1943), poet
* Margiad Evans (1909–1958), poet and novelist

## F

* Catherine Fisher (born 1957), novelist, poet and broadcaster

## G

* Menna Gallie (1919–1990), novelist and translator
* Isabella Gifford (1825–1891), marine botanist
* Annabel Giles (born 1950), broadcaster, novelist and actress
* Beatrice Green (1894–1927), labour activist and feminist/socialist writer
* Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), Welsh-language poet and hymn writer
* Bethan Gwanas, pen name of Bethan Evans (born 1962), Welsh-language novelist and children's writer

## H

* Ann Hatton (1764–1838), (Ann of Swansea) English-language novelist
* Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963), poet, artist and broadcaster
* Felicia Hemans (1793–1835), English-born Welsh poet writing in English
* Ann Harriet Hughes (1852–1910), Welsh-language novelist and poet
* Ellen Hughes (1867–1927), Welsh-language writer, poet and suffragist
* Emily Huws (born 1942), Welsh-language children's writer

## I

* Elisabeth Inglis-Jones (1900–1994), novelist
* Norah Isaac (1915–2003), Welsh-language short story writer, playwright and travel writer

## J

* Maria James (1793–1868), Welsh-born American poet
* Alice Gray Jones (1852–1943), poet, editor
* Margaret Jones (1842–1902), travel writer
* Mary Vaughan Jones (1918–1983), children's writer and teacher
* Sally Roberts Jones (born 1935), poet and biographer

## L

* Eiluned Lewis (1900–1979), novelist, poet and journalist
* Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh-language poet, national poet of Wales, also in English
* Martha Llwyd (1766–1845), poet and hymnist

## M

* Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988), poet and children's writer
* Ursula Masson (1945–2008), educator, literature researcher and non-fiction writer
* 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
* Jan Morris (born James Morris, 1926–2020), Welsh historian and travel writer
* Ann Moray (1909–1981), novelist, short story writer and singer
* Elaine Morgan (1920–2013), non-fiction writer on anthropology, playwright and columnist
* Elena Puw Morgan (1900–1973), Welsh-language novelist and children's writer
* Elizabeth Morgan (born 1930), non-fiction writer
* Eluned Morgan (1870–1938), Welsh-language author from Patagonia, travel writer and non-fiction writer
* Gwenllian Elizabeth Fanny Morgan (1852–1939), non-fiction writer and mayor
* Penelope Mortimer (1918–1999), journalist, biographer and novelist
* Wendy Mulford (born 1941), poet and feminist

## N

* Mary Edith Nepean (1876–1960), romantic novelist

## O

* Pixie O'Harris (1903–1991), Welsh-born Australian artist, poet, autobiographer and illustrator

## P

* Sarah Winifred Parry (1870–1953) fiction writer
* Amy Parry-Williams (1910–1988), singer and writer
* Jessie Penn-Lewis (1861–1927), evangelist, religious writer and magazine publisher
* Anne Penny (1729–1784), poet
* Ellis Peters (1913–1995), Welsh-English mystery fiction writer and translator: Brother Cadfael
* Pascale Petit (born 1953), poet
* Katherine Philips (1632–1664), poet and translator
* Angharad Price (living), novelist and academic
* Myfanwy Pryce (1890–1976), fiction writer

## R

* Allen Raine, pen name of Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe (1836–1908), novelist in English and Welsh
* Helen Raynor (born 1972), television screenwriter, script editor and playwright
* Sarah Jane Rees (1839–1916), teacher, poet and temperance campaigner
* Deryn Rees-Jones (fl. since 1994), poet and essayist
* Eigra Lewis Roberts (born 1939), poet, children's writer and novelist in Welsh
* Kate Roberts (1891–1985), Welsh-language fiction writer
* Manon Steffan Ros
* Jane Helen Rowlands (1891–1955), linguist, non-fiction writer and missionary
* Bernice Rubens (1923–2004), novelist: The Elected Member

## S

* Carole Seymour-Jones (born 1963), biographer, columnist and literary non-fiction writer
* Norena Shopland author, historian in LGBTQ+ history and Welsh history
* Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), mystery novelist and crime-fiction writer
* Mari Strachan (born 1945), novelist and librarian
* Jennifer Sullivan (born 1945), children's writer and critic
* Rosie Swale-Pope (born 1946), non-fiction writer and marathon runner

## T

* Louie Myfanwy Thomas (1908–1968), novelist
* Hester Thrale (1741–1821), diarist
* Barbara Margaret Trimble (1921–1995), novelist

## V

* Hilda Vaughan (1892–1985), fiction writer, playwright: The Invader

## W

* Jo Walton (born 1964), Welsh-Canadian romance and science fiction novelist: Tooth and Claw
* Anna Laetitia Waring (1823–1910), poet and hymnist
* Sarah Waters (born 1966), novelist: Fingersmith
* Susie Wild (born 1979), novelist, journalist and editor
* Sioned Wiliam (born 1962), novelist and broadcasting executive
* Anna Williams (1706–1783), poet
* Jane Williams (1806–1885), biographer and non-fiction writer

## Y

* Paula Yates (1959–2000), non-fiction writer and television presenter