Nesta Roberts

The daughter of a merchant seaman, Roberts grew up in North Wales, speaking both English and Welsh, and was educated at St Winifred's School, Llanfairfechan.

[1] Roberts began work as a journalist on a weekly newspaper in South Wales and pursued her career in Lincolnshire.

[1] After retiring from working for The Guardian full-time, Roberts stayed in France, contributing an occasional column called "Letters from Paris".

[1] On her return from France, Roberts retired to live in Louth, in Lincolnshire, attracted by the High Anglicanism of its parish church.

Conservative in everything except politics, she loved medieval churches, travelled everywhere by train and bus, and never married, dying in 2009 at the age of ninety-six.