n the annals of Welsh literature there is an important figure whose name you perhaps might not recognise. It is that of Dorothy Edwards.
Writing at the height of modernism and a time of great social change in the world Edwards' critique of gender and class had an unquestionable Welsh bent fostered by her upbringing in Ogmore Vale, Bridgend. During her life she skirted on the periphery of the Bloosmbury group featuring writers such as Virginia Woolf, EM Forster, and Lytton Strachey.
But the English upper-class set would never fully accept Edwards as one of their own due to her so called "Welsh provincialism" and lower-middle-class background. After a number of setbacks in her life, including a failed love affair, guilt over her mother's ailing health, and her stalling writing career she took her own life by jumping in front of a train.
