'Susan Miles' was born Ursula Wyllie in 1887 in India, where her father was a colonel. Educated in London, in 1909 she married William Roberts, who was Rector of St George’s, Bloomsbury from 1917-38. Under the name Susan Miles she was a published novelist and poet; in 1920 Harold Monro singled her out in Contemporary Poets as one of the fifty most important poets then writing. She also two novels, a novel in verse ('Lettice Delmer') and a biography of her husband entitled 'Portrait of a Parson'. She died in 1975.