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Ladies
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Product details
- ISBN 9780708324059
- Dimensions: 132 x 188mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2011
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Eirene White’s The Ladies of Gregynog tells the story of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, inheritors of great wealth at the end of the nineteenth century, and unique among their wealthy contemporaries in the early twentieth century. The two sisters devoted their large fortune to fostering the culture of their native Wales and, in 1920, acquired the Gregynog estate with the intention of establishing a craft commune. Today, almost a century later, Gregynog hall is a centre devoted to academic study, the revived Gregynog Press and a continuing tradition of music festivals in the fine setting of the estate gardens and arboretum. First published in 1985.
Eirene White (1909-99) was one of the first female members of Parliament in the Labour party in Wales. When she retired from the House of Commons in 1970, she was made a life peer as Baroness White of Rhymney.
