• 1880: At the age of two, fluent in English and Hindustani, Berta was sent to live with her Welsh-speaking grandmother who owned an estate in the Aberdyfi area of south Gwynedd.
• Berta was initially educated at home, but after a term at a boarding school in Germany she was sent to St Winifred’s School in Bangor.
• After a brief period as an au pair in Germany, she moved to London to study at Lambeth art school, before winning a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art.
• 1904: She moved on to the Colarossi Academy in Paris. Berta started contributing to magazines such as ‘The Idler’.
• 1905: Her short stories and serials began to appear in ‘Home Chat’ and other periodicals.
• 1909: Marries the novelist, George Oliver Onions.
• 1914: Publishes ‘His Official Fiancée’, under the name of ‘Mrs. Oliver Onions’.
• 1916: Publishes ‘Miss Million’s Maid’ under the name of ‘Berta Ruck’.
• 1935: Publishes her book, ‘A Storyteller tells the Truth’.
• 1937: When the trial of Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams for arson at Penyberth was heard at the Old Bailey, she took notes and drew portraits of the defendants.
• 1939: Moves from London to live in Aberdyfi at the start of the Second World War.
• 1967: Publishes ‘Shopping for a Husband’.