Funding lift for writer's museum

Kate Roberts moved to Denbigh in 1935

A museum to commemorate one of the 20th century's best-known Welsh language authors have been boosted by a £75,907 grant.

Kate Roberts, who died in 1985, wrote novels and short stories, many set in the slate quarries of north west Wales.

The museum would be based at her childhood home in Rhosgadfan, Caernarfon.

Her most famous works include Te yn y grug" (Tea in the heather) and "Traed mewn cyffion" (Feet in chains).

Born in 1891, she is said to have turned to writing as a form of therapy after one of her brothers died in World War One.

She became a teacher after studying at the University College of North Wales in Bangor.

In 1935, she and her husband Morris T. Williams bought the publishing house Gwasg Gee in Denbigh.

She later ran the company for 10 years on her own after the death of Mr Williams in 1946.

The funding, from the Welsh Assembly Government, will be given over two years, for interpretation work, the commissioning of a historical report, the completion of a car park, and the development of a website.