100 Greatest Welsh Women - 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?
About the Author: Terry Breverton was educated at Manchester and Lancaster universities, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He has spoken on Wales at the North American Festival of Wales at Vancouver and Washington and across Wales, given academic papers in Paris, Thessaloniki, Charleston and Seattle and taught in Milan and Reggio Emilia. He has given the Bemis Lecture at Lincoln, Massachusetts and been awarded a Helm Fellowship at the University of Indiana. Breverton has appeared in several television documentaries about the Welsh, including in Los Angeles, and has worked and consulted in over thirty countries. After a career in international business and acadaemia, he is a full-time non-fiction writer of over fifty books, and has won five Welsh Books Council 'Book of the Month' awards. He has spoken across Wales upon Welsh heritage, a particular interest being Welsh pirates and privateers such as 'Black Bart' Roberts and Admiral Sir Henry Morgan. His A to Z of Wales and the Welsh was an acclaimed 'first Welsh encyclopaedia', and Archbishop Rowan Williams commented upon his The Book of Welsh Saints: 'this book is a really extraordinary achievement: a compilation of tradition, topography and literary detective work that can have few rivals. I have enjoyed browsing it immensely, and have picked up all sorts of new lines to follow up... an enormous work of research.' Richard Booth MBE, (King Richard Coeur de Livre, the 'King of Hay'), states that 'Breverton has done more for Welsh tourism than the Welsh Tourist Board.' His books have been published across the world, and translated into over twenty languages from Polish and Turkish to Chinese and Japanese. Breverton played rugby until he was 38, and says his proudest achievement is being on the committee of Llanybydder Rugby Football Club. Breverton's 100 Great Welshmen (2001) was a Welsh Books Council Book of the Month reviewed as 'a fascinating compendium' with 'painstaking research'. His second edition of 2006 was called: 'a veritable goldmine of a book'; and 'a massive treasure chest of facts and figures which no collector of books on Wales can overlook'.