the marginalization of British women in the interwar period. In the late 1920s Edwards became close friends with the Bloomsbury author David Garnett, who dubbed her his "Welsh Cinderella" and introduced her to other Bloomsbury Group members, including the artist Dora Carrington. In the early 1930s, she agreed to live with Garnett, his wife Ray and their family. In exchange for child care, she received board, lodging and space to write. The publisher E. E. Wishart offered her an advance on a new volume of stories to include "The Problem of Life", "Mutiny" and "Mitter". However, tensions arose between Garnett and Edwards. London friends grew weary of her outspokenness and the Welsh provincialism they saw in her. Edwards was aware of her socially inferior position, but still held her father's teachings in reverence and was drawn increasingly to the Welsh nationalist movement. Flay describes her as riddled with guilt at leaving her mother with a hired companion, frustrated at her dependence on the Garnetts, and reeling after a love affair with Ronald Harding, a married Welsh cellist. Suicide and posthumous publications On 5 January 1934, having spent the morning burning papers, she threw herself in front of a train near Caerphilly railway station. She left a suicide note: "I am killing myself because I have never sincerely loved any human being all my life. I have accepted kindness and friendship and even love without gratitude, and given nothing in return." She was cremated at Glyntaff, Pontypridd, on 9 January. Her mother died later that year. "Mutiny" and "The Problem of Life" were published in Life and Letters To-day in 1934, but Edward's works were largely forgotten until Virago Press reissued Rhapsody and Winter Sonata in 1986. Christopher Meredith contributed an article about Rhapsody to Planet magazine no. 107 in 1994, and wrote an introduction for the Library of Wales edition of 2007, which once more brought the book into print. That edition also includes the two posthumously published stories as well as a previously unpublished story, "La Penseuse". Winter Sonata appeared again in Honno Welsh Women's Classics in 2011, with an introduction by Claire Flay. Since then there has been stronger interest in her life and works. Edwards wrote a short story, "The Conquered", which was included in A View Across The Valley, an anthology reclaiming female Welsh nature writers. Works Rhapsody (short stories, 1927) Winter Sonata (1928) References Welsh