It was during her studies on the German Reformation at the University of Melbourne that her interest in the early modern past and the changing role of women and the family began to emerge. Roper is an alumna of the University of Melbourne graduating with a BA (Hons) in History with Philosophy in 1977. For a while he was a minister of religion before leaving the ministry to work as a social worker supervising children's and youth services in an outer district of Melbourne. Roper's father William Stanley 'Stan', who had done intelligence work in Germany after the Second World War, became a State Director in ASIO but then resigned to obtain a theology degree.
After retiring she taught at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education, later part of the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. Her mother Ailsa Roper taught drama and literature in schools and had a strong interest in psycho-drama. A passionate trade unionist, Roper's grandfather would pour out animated and angry reminiscences of Gallipoli.
The interrogators concluded that there were no ‘witch marks’ on Holl’s body, but even so, the investigation was just getting under way.Roper was born in Melbourne on. First, they stripped their prisoner and searched every space of her body for any abnormalities, skin tags, moles or bumps, which they believed could be ‘witch marks.’ To be thorough, Maria Holl was shaved of all of her body hair, and when a suspected mark was found, it was prodded with a needle, but was not declared a mark of witchcraft. With their supposed witch in custody, Holl’s questioners quickly launched into their investigations. Unfortunately for Maria Holl, the council, inquisitors and the citizens of Nördlingen all believed that she was truly a witch. At first, Holl was patient with the council and their questioners she was confident that she would be released without much of a hassle. In the last decade of the 16 th century, a respectable woman who owned a restaurant along with her husband in Nördlingen, Germany, was put under arrest by the authority of the town council on suspicion of witchcraft.
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