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Robb moved from Griffith to Sydney at the age of five on the death of her father. She was educated at Petersham and Fort Street Girls' High and later gained a Graduate Diploma in Children's Literature to further her work as a librarian. Robb became a Quaker in 1970 and was active in assisting asylum seekers. She qualified as a teacher of English as a second language after her formal retirement and worked as a volunteer at the Asylum Seekers' Centre in Surry Hills in Sydney. At the time of her death Robb was again furthering her education, this time as a distance student through the University of New England where she was studying Indonesian and Medieval History.