 They were so prolific, these years, that I sometimes, if tired, feared to look at a poetry book lest a poem might strike me and set itself instantaneously to music in my head, and I should be inclined to run away and set it down.” Without any family or musical relations to Wales, she was made the first woman President of the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1906, with fellow presidents of the calibre like the Lord Mayor and the Bishop of London and two lords.A few years later she was also made a "Bardess of Wales" under the title "Harp of Ireland".She was the first woman to conduct at the Royal Albert Hall.