Betty Trask published her first novel in 1928, called Cotton Glove Country, when she was 35 years old.

Between 1935 and 1952 she also wrote 22 novels under the name Ann Delamain[3] which were published by Constable, Collins and Hurst and Blackett.

Betty lived there quietly and modestly in a small semi-detached house until ill-health forced her into a nursing home, where she died aged 90 in January 1983.

[7] Because the sum available each year would have made the prize the most valuable in British literature,[8] since 1984 the Society has awarded a Betty Trask Prize, typically of £10,000, to the writer of a chosen novel, and Betty Trask Awards of lesser amounts for up to six other novels each year.

Betty Trask's life as a writer of romance novels, her bequest and her discreet life were celebrated in 1983 in an article in Spanish, La señorita de Somerset, in the Peruvian magazine Caretas by the Nobel prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa.