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Angharad James (poet)

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Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire – an inventory of the ancient monuments in Caernarvonshire, Volume 1 – East (1956)
36:, Wales, on 16 July 1677. When still a young woman, she married William Prichard, a man far older than herself, who farmed Cwm Penamnen, a valley to the south of 44:, for the remainder of her life. She continued to farm the valley after being widowed. As of 2009, the house was being uncovered by archaeologists. 244: 152: 314: 274: 269: 329: 254: 249: 239: 79:. They include an elegy to her son, who had died when 16, and another to her husband, in the form of an imaginary dialogue. 279: 324: 130:
Sir John Wynn. History of the Gwydir family and memoirs. Edited by J. Gwynfor Jones. Llandysul : Gwasg Gomer, 1990.
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She was a skilled harpist who commanded her workers to dance to her playing as they returned from the milking.
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She was buried on 25 August 1749 and is buried within the church of St. Gwyddelan in Dolwyddelan.
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Women's Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550–1700
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John Ellis Jones, 'Bedd Angharad James O Benamnen, Dolwyddelan',
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A'i Gyrfa Megis Gwerful': Bywyd a Gwaith Angharad James',
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She was born in Gelliffrydau farm at Baladeulyn in the
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Transactions of the Caernarvonshire Historical Society
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Nantlle Valley
Dolwyddelan
Gwydir
Welsh
poet
Margaret Davies
National Library of Wales




"Dolwyddelan.org website"
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1677 births
1749 deaths
17th-century women musicians
18th-century British women musicians
17th-century Welsh musicians
18th-century Welsh musicians
17th-century Welsh poets
18th-century Welsh poets
17th-century Welsh women writers
18th-century Welsh women writers
People from Caernarfonshire
Welsh-language poets
Welsh folk harpists
British women harpists
Welsh women musicians
Welsh women poets

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