Background
Evelyn Beatrice Roberts was born in Argentina on 4 July 1909, in Buenos Aires, to parents of Welsh extraction.
Evelyn Beatrice Roberts was born in Argentina on 4 July 1909, in Buenos Aires, to parents of Welsh extraction.
While still young she moved to Britain, and studied in London at the Central School for Arts and Crafts.
Born in Argentina, she settled in Britain and wrote in English. In Llanybri she painted, and in 1944 her collection Poems were published by Faber and Faber. She immortalised her village in her "Poem from Llanybri".
This poem was addressed to the poet, Alun Lewis, to whom Roberts confessed to being attracted.
In 1944 and 1945 drafts of Robert Graves"s The White Goddess were published in Keidrych Rhys"s periodical, Wales. After the War Roberts was the dedicatee of Robert Graves"s The White Goddess in its first edition (1948), having provided much of the Welsh material used by him.
In 1949, she and Keidrych Rhys divorced. In 1951 Faber and Faber published her Gods with stainless ears: a heroic poem.
She died on 26 September 1995, at Ferryside, Carmarthenshire.
