Under the pseudonym ‘Gwenynen Gwent’ Augusta Hall won a prize of ‘A Seal Ring, with a Welsh Motto engraved on a Welsh Pebble, value £10. 10s.' at the 1834 eisteddfod in Cardiff. The title of the essay was ‘The Advantages Resulting from the Preservation of The Welsh Language and National Costumes of Wales’ and in it Augusta argued strongly that the preservation of any language leads to a greater sense of nationality and stated :-

‘The fact must certainly be admitted that nationality is desirable as it tends to promote honourable conduct, and by disposing us first of all to love our country, it induces us to wish for its welfare, and next to promote that welfare to the utmost of our abilities.

It being allowed then that nationality contains the essentials of Patriotism, it of necessity follows that every circumstance which promotes and fosters that most beneficial quality must be deserving of encouragement; and as it is admitted that the existence of the Welsh language has in an eminent degree contributed to the maintainance [sic] of national feeling, we may surely assert with confidence that the preservation of that language calls for the support of every well-wisher of his country;'