Menna Gallie

Menna Patricia Humphreys Gallie was a Welsh-speaking Welsh novelist, translator and public speaker. In 1940 she married W.B. Gallie, a Scottish social theorist, political theorist, philosopher and a lifelong democratic socialist. She was a life-long Labour Party activist. She rejected feminism because she felt that it was ideologically hidebound. And she was cool towards what she perceived as "the more insistent parts" of its second-wave. From 1940 to 1990, while Gallie lived in Wales, she gave numerous talks to Neath Townswomen's Guild, Swansea University Women Graduates and Swansea Writers' Group. She is best known for her novels in the English language and as the first translator into English of the Welsh language novel Un Nos Ola Leuad by Caradog Prichard, the Welsh poet and novelist, as Full Moon (1973).