She became associated with David Garnett and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she stated in her suicide note that she had "accepted kindness and friendship and even love without gratitude, and given nothing in return."
[1] 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.
[1] Dorothy was taught to believe that a revolution was at hand and class and gender-based divisions would soon crumble,[1] 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 took a part-time, temporary job to augment her mother's pension and continued to work on short stories,[2] several of which featured in literary journals.
[3] 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.
107 in 1994, and a longer essay on Edwards's fiction, "Rhapsody's lost story", focusing on the then unpublished "La Penseuse" in Moment of Earth (Celtic Studies Publications, 2007) .
In 2023 Gary Raymond's play about Edwards, Rhythm and Rhapsody, directed by Chris Durnall, was staged at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.