April 14, 1985

Kate Roberts, "was the foremost twentieth-century prose writer in the Welsh language." Her dates are February 13, 1891, to April 14, 1985. The heroines of her fiction, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,  suffer crises, "from which there is no emergence except through self-examination. They are 'suffering queens'... able, handsome, previously self-regarding -- who are for a while overwhelmed not only by their particular tribulations but also by a conviction that civilization has rotted."

From "Pictures," a story her translator, Joseph Clancy, has categorized as autobiography, we have this paragraph:

One day I open the door of the china cabinet and the cat leaps out past me like a bolt of lightning, and runs just like the saying, "a cat out of hell." I can't understand how she got into the cabinet; she never did this before. Someone must have opened the cabinet door, and she went inside and someone closed it not knowing she was inside. Something is tugging at me. I open the door on the left side to see how my hat is. And, oh! what a sight. My grand best hat is ruined. The cat has been lying on it....

The world of Kate Roberts: selected stories, 1925-1981 (1991), is the book Clancy translated into English. Roberts was buried on April 17, 1985, in the same grave as her husband, four decades earlier.