Inquest – Rosa Wylie

Context Note: Widow of the author and film-maker, Lauri Wylie. The age ’65’ is significantly wrong; she was born in August 1878 at Birmingham, daughter of Richard Edwards and Adelaide Sarah (Wallis) Edwards. Rosa also appears to have been a pseudonym.


BRIGHTON & HOVE NEWS

At the inquest on Mrs. Rosa Wylie (65) who was found hanging by a sash-cord from a door hook in her Brunswick-square flat a verdict was recorded that she “took her life while the balance of her mind was disturbed.” […]

(West Sussex Gazette, 19th August 1954)