Problems of Authorship and Attribution: The Welsh-Language Women's Canon Before 1800

Cathryn Charnell-White

Problems of Authorship and Attribution: The Welsh-Language Women's Canon Before 1800

Cathryn Charnell-White

Department of Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Problems of authorship and attribution pose significant methodological challenges for researchers of Welsh-language women poets before 1800. These issues are contingent on the prevailing oral and manuscript cultures of transmission characteristic of Wales’s bardic culture, from which women were largely excluded. This article explores the unstable Welsh-language canon of poetry by women and highlights examples of problematic authorship and attestation. It also interrogates the diachronic wishful thinking of the Welsh feminist agenda alongside the synchronic reality of early modern women poets: is there a coherent female tradition and was it visible to early modern women poets?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Women’s Writing from Wales before 1914
Editors	Jane Aaron
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
ISBN (Electronic)	9780429330865
ISBN (Print)	9780367353483, 9781032088952
Publication status	Published - 01 Oct 2019

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Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales 1400-1800: An Anthology
Prescott, S. (Editor), Coolahan, M.-L., Dunnigan, S., Hamrick, W., Mathis, K. & Charnell-White, C. (Editor), 27 Jan 2026, Cambridge University Press. 782 p.
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Early Modern Women Writers
Charnell-White, C. & Prescott, S., 09 Aug 2021, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Living Edition ed. ar-lein: Springer Nature
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Problems of Authorship and Attribution: The Welsh-Language Women's Canon Before 1800
Charnell-White, C., 02 Oct 2017, In: Women's Writing. 24, 4, p. 398-417 20 p.
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Lleisiau merched ym marddoniaeth Gymraegy Cyfnod Modern Cynnar (1400–1800)
Charnell-White, C. (Speaker)
07 Oct 2016
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Problems of Authorship and Attribution: The Welsh-Language Women's Canon Before 1800

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Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales 1400-1800: An Anthology

Early Modern Women Writers

Problems of Authorship and Attribution: The Welsh-Language Women's Canon Before 1800

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Lleisiau merched ym marddoniaeth Gymraegy Cyfnod Modern Cynnar (1400–1800)

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