17 Facts About Lynette Roberts

Evelyn Beatrice Roberts was a Welsh poet and novelist.

Lynette Roberts's poems were about war, landscape, and life in the small Welsh village where she lived.

Lynette Roberts published two poetry collections: Poems and Gods with Stainless Ears: A Heroic Poem.

In later life, Roberts had a mental breakdown and stopped publishing.

Lynette Roberts's work was largely forgotten for the remainder of her life.

Lynette Roberts provided Welsh-related material for Graves' The White Goddess, and Graves dedicated his book to her.

Lynette Roberts spent much of the rest of her life as a resident of mental institutions.

Lynette Roberts was born 4 July 1909 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Cecil Lynette Roberts and Ruby Garbutt, both Australians of Welsh descent.

Cecil Lynette Roberts was a railway engineer, who worked as General Manager of the Buenos Aires Western Railways.

Lynette Roberts went on to study in London at the Central School for Arts and Crafts.

Later, they moved to Madeira, where they lived in a small house and Lynette Roberts worked on her poetry.

In 1939, while living in London, Lynette Roberts met the Welsh poet, Ronald Rees Jones at a Poetry London Event.

Lynette Roberts gave birth to two children toward the end of the war, a daughter, Angharad, born in 1945, and a son, Pridein, born in 1946.

In Llanybri, Lynette Roberts painted, wrote poetry and raised her family.

Lynette Roberts immortalised her village in her "Poem from Llanybri".

Lynette Roberts was the dedicatee of Robert Graves's The White Goddess in its first edition, having provided much of the Welsh material used by him.

Later in life, Lynette Roberts repudiated her work and refused to permit her published poetry to be reprinted.