Oxford poet Anne Barbara Ridler followed in her family's footsteps when she was presented with an OBE.

Mrs Ridler, 89, was given the medal for services to literature by Hugo Brunner, the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, at her home in Stanley Road, east Oxford.

Mrs Ridler's husband, Vivian Ridler has already been made a CBE for his work as a printer and publisher and her elder brother, Matthew Bradley, was made an MBE for serving in the Navy during the First World War.

Mrs Ridler said: "I was very pleased to get it. Now my family has got all three.

"It's hanging above the mantelpiece at the moment but it would be good for my self-esteem to see it by the bedroom mirror in the morning when I'm not feeling very honourable."

Mrs Ridler, started writing as a young girl and later became an assistant to the famous poet T.S Eliot when she worked at publishers Faber and Faber in the 1930s and 1940s.

She has written several collections of poetry, plays, biographies, criticism, and she has also edited a number of books. She moved to Oxford in 1948 when her husband started work at the Oxford University Press.