Between 1968 and 1971, she was a member of the Incredible String Band, with whom she sang and played bass guitar, violin and percussion among other instruments.

According to the band's producer Joe Boyd, "the day Robin proposed that Licorice join the group, Mike went out and bought Rose an electric bass.

[5] In 1994, as the partner of a Liberal Democrat councillor who was the Mayor, she took on the largely honorary role of Lady Mayoress of Aberystwyth in Wales, an event which received wide publicity.

[6] During that period of her life, she lived in the Welsh village of Llanon, in a house on the main A487 coast road.

She gained a PhD degree in German Literature at the University of Aberystwyth, and has lectured there on the work of 1930s authors Ina Seidel and Vicki Baum.