“Meiddio Byw”: Agwedd y Llenor at Fywyd yng Ngohebiaeth George Sand, Gustave Flaubert, Kate Roberts a Saunders Lewis (“Daring to live": Work-life balance in the letters of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, Kate Roberts and Saunders Lewis)

This article compares the renowned letters of Kate Roberts and Saunders Lewis with the correspondence of two leading nineteenth-century French authors, Gustave Flaubert and George Sand, considering the value and purpose of letters between authors. In addition to widening our understanding of Roberts and Lewis’s works, the article also places the Sand-Flaubert correspondence in a new context, and considers the development of authorial correspondence over the decades. It draws original conclusions by revealing that literary letters continue to play a key role for writers in the twentieth century: offering encouragement and advice, a means of escape from current circumstances, and an important tool in the struggle against the emptiness of modern society.