Swansea University Archives Blog

This month for LGBT+ History Month, we are pleased to launch the newly catalogued Amy Dillwyn Collection (ref. DC6). Amy Dillwyn (1845-1935) was a pioneering female industrialist, novelist, social justice campaigner, and, according to Professor Kirsti Bohata, ‘a queer writer of international significance’’.   The Amy Dillwyn papers include – Amy’s handwritten journals  (1863-1917) a copy of…Continue Reading ‘Take me as you find me … I am not ashamed of being myself’