Career
She was born at Montacute in Somerset, and received no formal education. Much of the knowledge she acquired in youth was self-discovered. Her early adult life was spent farming, but in a family of prodigious writers – notably John Cowper Powys, T. F. Powys and Llewelyn Powys – it was no surprise that her own creative energies were channelled into literature from an early age.
A couple of miles inland, across whale-backed hills, lay the village of East Chaldon where another brother, Theodore (TF) Powys, lived as well as the author Sylvia Townsend Warner and poet Valentine Ackland.
