 Earlier, her story "The Divorce" had appeared in English in 1928 in the periodical "The Welsh Outlook".Cadwaladr had a close relationship with the elderly poet Dewi Emrys (1881–1952), by whom she had a daughter in 1930.Dilys Cadwaladr lived on Bardsey Island for several years in the 1940s, as a farmer and as the schoolteacher to the island's children.