[3] Edwards was born in Penrhyndeudraeth, a large village that became notable, during the war torn years of the early twentieth century, as a manufacturing centre for gun cotton.
[3] In the south of the country the Welsh language was in retreat due to the large-scale immigration from England that accompanied industrialisation,[5] and Edwards became conscious of a shortage of appropriate published children's literature, which she remedied for her own purposes by writing short stories that she could read to her classes.
[3] During the early twentieth century the polymath-educationalist Owen Morgan Edwards, one of whose varied functions was as a schools inspector, came across her at work and urged her to publish.
[3] Starting in 1902, she published more than 150 short stories in Cymru'r Plant,[3] the Welsh language children's magazine launched by Owen Morgan Edwards at the tail end of the previous century.
Beyond her writing and teaching, Edwards was active in the North Wales Women's Temperance Union and the Merioneth Historical and Records Society.