Former English teacher and author Sue Le Blond died in her sleep, aged 62, at her Bradford on Avon home on December 7.

Born in Enfield in 1951, she grew up there before studying English and drama at Sheffield University. She completed her teacher training and taught at Simon Langton Grammar School in Canterbury until 1976.

While in Canterbury she met her husband Peter in 1974 and they had two children, Simon, born in 1983, and Josie, born in 1986.

After spending a year in Jamaica teaching English, they moved to Bradford on Avon, divorcing in 2005.

She taught English at St Mary’s School in Calne, Stonar School in Atworth and Monkton Combe School where she worked for 10 years, after which she semi-retired, working at Frome College and Lackham College.

She also worked at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, where she was founding editor of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine.

She was involved in many productions with Shakespeare Live and Bradford on Avon drama group the Bradfordians, wrote theatre reviews for the Gazette & Herald and Wiltshire Times for many years and also wrote plays, including one based on the life of John Wesley.

She was a poetry lover and moved to Cumbria for two-and-a-half years, where she worked on two historical novels inspired by the work of poets Wordsworth and Coleridge.

In 2007 she returned to Bradford on Avon due to her battle with multiple sclerosis, where she wrote a further two novels.

Her daughter said: “My mother touched many lives with her own loving spirit. She was an incredibly creative character and inspired both her pupils and readers. She will be greatly missed.”

Donations in her memory can be made to Dorothy House and Cancer Research UK.