Susan Miles was the pen name of Ursula Wyllie Roberts (1887–1975).
She was born at Meerut in India, where her father was in the British military.[1][2] He was Lieutenant-Colonel Robert John Humphrey Wyllie and her mother was Emily Titcomb.[3][4]
Under her own name, she wrote a pamphlet The Cause of Purity and Women's Suffrage which was published by the Church League for Women's Suffrage in 1912.[5]
As Susan Miles, she published several slim volumes of poetry: Dunch (1918),[6] Annotations (1922),[7] Little Mirrors (1923?),[8][9] The Hares (1924),[10] News! News! (1943?), Rainbows (1962),[11] A Morsel of Gold (1962)[12] and Epigrams and Jingles (1962)[13] as well as the more famous novel in verse Lettice Delmer (1958, reprinted by Persephone Books in 2002), two other novels (Blind Men Crossing a Bridge (1934) and Rabboni (1942))[14][15] and a biography of her husband, Rev. William Corbett Roberts,[16] Portrait of a Parson (1955).[17] Dunch was sufficiently significant to earn her a reasonably positive mention in Harold Monro's often unforgiving Some Contemporary Poets (1920) and Herbert Palmer described her as "One [of] the most original" in the chapter on Women Poets in his 1938 study of post-Victorian poetry.[18][19] She also edited Childhood in Verse and Prose (1923)[20] and An Anthology of Youth in Verse and Prose (1925).[21]