[3] In 1916 she donated the Llanover Manuscripts (seventy-seven volumes of notes, transcripts and compositions by Iolo Morganwg) to the National Library of Wales.
Elydir John Bernard Herbert, who was killed in World War I,[6] at which point she inherited the family fortune.
[9] At that year's annual general meeting of the Liberal Social Council in Newport,[10] she was presented with a bookcase containing a "valuable collection of Welsh literature" as a wedding gift.
"[11] She developed a "close and long-lasting relationship"[12] with Scottish author and art theorist, Clementina Anstruther-Thomson (1857–1921).
[14] In 1948, she donated the main house of Llanover Court to the Catholic Church, and moved into a small home on the estate.