ABSTRACT
At Dowlais and nearby, Sir John and Lady Charlotte founded and financed six schools21 and it was she who supervised these, as well as teaching her own daughters. She played the harp and the piano, she etched and was fond of riding her horse, who was called “Llamrei”, after Arthur’s horse in Culhwch. Lady Charlotte Guest’s easy, fluent, slightly archaic style has been much praised by subsequent generations. Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones describe her Mabinogion as “a classic in its own right,” and say that they cannot too emphatically pay tribute to so splendid an achievement. Whatever may have been the extent of the help which Lady Charlotte received from others, whether in scholarship or in mountaineering, it cannot detract from the magnitude of her achievment and her deep interest and involvement in her work.
