Florence Roma Wilson, known as Roma, was born in Sheffield, the daughter of Arnold Wilson, a solicitor, and Amy, nee Dearden. She was educated at West Heath School, Ham, near Richmond, and came to Girton to read Law 1911-1914. While at College she became part of a close-knit group of friends, including Margery (Margie) Garrett (Girton 1907) and Margaret (Pikey) Coursolles Jones (Newnham 1907). It is thought that her novel, ‘If all these young men’ (1921) is based on this Cambridge coterie and the impact on its members of the First World War. After leaving Girton she took up a position of assistant in the Food Production Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 1916-18. She also started writing, and subsequently became a novelist (using the pen name Romer Wilson), publishing more than a dozen works of fiction, biography and drama between 1918 and 1929. She was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1921. In 1923, she married Edward O’Brien, of Boston, USA, whom she met in Italy. They had one son and from 1928 the family lived at the Villa Pauliska in Locarno, Switzerland. She died at Lausanne on 11 January 1930.