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==Translations== [[File:The Mabinogion page 452.png|thumb|Illustration from Lady Guest's Mabinogion.]] Lady Charlotte Guest's work was helped by the earlier research and translation work of William Owen Pughe.<ref>{{cite DWB|title=Guest (Schreiber), Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie|id=s-GUES-ELI-1812|access-date=6 March 2015}}</ref> The first part of Charlotte Guest's translation of the Mabinogion appeared in 1838, and it was completed in seven parts in 1845.<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC Wales History β Lady Charlotte Guest|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/figures/lady_charlotte_guest.shtml|website=BBC Wales|access-date=6 March 2015}}</ref> A three-volume edition followed in 1846,<ref>{{cite web|title=Lady Charlotte Guest. extracts from her journal 1833β1852|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/Guest.html|website=Genuki: UK and Ireland Genealogy|access-date=6 March 2015}}</ref> and a revised edition in 1877. Her version of the ''Mabinogion'' was the most frequently used English version until the 1948 translation by [[Gwyn Jones (author)|Gwyn Jones]] and Thomas Jones, which has been widely praised for its combination of literal accuracy and elegant literary style.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lady Charlotte Guest|url=http://www.data-wales.co.uk/guest.htm|website=Data Wales Index and search|access-date=6 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504015452/http://data-wales.co.uk/guest.htm|archive-date=4 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Stephens |editor1-first=Meic |editor1-link=Meic Stephens |title=The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales |year=1986 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |publication-date=1986 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/306 306, 326] |isbn=0-19-211586-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/306 }}</ref> Several more, listed below, have since appeared.
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