Dorothy Edwards (18 August 1902 – 5 January 1934) was a Welsh novelist who wrote in English. She became associated with David Garnett and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she stated in a note before committing suicide that she had "accepted kindness and friendship and even love without gratitude, and given nothing in return." Upbringing Edwards was born at Ogmore Vale, Glamorgan, the only child of Edward Edwards and his wife Vida. Her father was head of Tynewydd School, Ogmore Vale, where her mother had also worked before her marriage, and was a significant person in the Independent Labour Party and the British co-operative movement. Through him, Dorothy met notable socialists, including Keir Hardie and George Lansbury. At nine years old and dressed in red, she welcomed Hardie onto the stage in Tonypandy during the national coal strike of 1912. Dorothy was taught to believe that a revolution was at hand and class and gender-based divisions would soon crumble, but as Claire Flay points out, her father's safe and relatively well-paid job set her apart from the rest of the community. She was not taught the Welsh language as a child, although her parents probably spoke some. Dorothy won a scholarship to Howell's School for Girls in Llandaff, where she was a boarder. She then read Greek and philosophy at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, predecessor of Cardiff University. Flay places her among a circle of ambitious, unconventional women. By this time her father had died and she lived with her mother in Rhiwbina. A short engagement to her philosophy lecturer, John MacCaig Thorburn, came to a difficult end. Writing After graduating, Edwards set aside her early ambition to become an opera singer, though Flay describes her as having an excellent singing voice. Nor did she follow her parents into teaching. She took a part-time, temporary job to augment her mother's pension and continued to work on short stories, several of which featured in literary journals. "A Country House", "Summer-time" and "The Conquered" appeared in The Calendar of Modern Letters. Rhapsody (1927), along with seven others she had written or revised during a nine-month visit to Vienna with her mother. In 1928 came a short novel, Winter Sonata, which Flay describes as restrained, multi-faceted and structurally innovative, deconstructing social and gender hierarchies in depicting an English village in winter. Both Rhapsody and Winter Sonata describe