 The last two decades of Gibbons 's life were uneventful and lived almost entirely beyond the public eye . She kept her health and looks until almost the end of her life — in a biographical sketch , Jill Neville recorded that " her beauty endured , as did her upright carriage , typical of Edwardian ladies who were forced as girls to walk around with a book balanced on their heads . " As well as her unpublished novels she wrote occasional short stories , two of which were rejected by the BBC , and contributed three new poems to Richard Adams 's 1986 anthology Occasional Poets , a work which included verses from part @-@ time poets such as Iris Murdoch , William Golding , Alan Ayckbourn and Quentin Crisp . These were Gibbons 's last published works . One of Gibbons 's poems in the anthology was " Writ in Water " , inspired by her love for the poetry of Keats . In 2013 the manuscript of this poem was presented to the Keats @-@ Shelley Memorial House museum in Rome . 
