Name Sylvia Thompson Role Novelist | Died April 27, 1968 | |
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Books In the Garden of Illness- I Sit By the Well of Hope | ||
Sylvia Thompson, Mrs Luling (4 September 1902 – 27 April 1968) was an English novelist, writer and public speaker.
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Life
Sylvia Thompson was born in Scotland, the daughter of Norman Arthur Thompson (founder of the Norman Thompson Flight Company) and Ethel Hannah Levis.
She attended Somerville College, Oxford. Other literary contemporaries at Somerville College included Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby, Hilda Reid and Margaret Kennedy. She established her reputation as a public orator, and in 1932, she joined the lecture circuit in the United States.
Personal life
In 1926, she married Theodore Peter Dunham Luling (an artist known as "Peter Luling"), with whom she had three daughters: Rosemary Haughton (theologian and writer), Virginia Luling (anthropologist) and Elizabeth Dooley (actress).
Death
Sylvia Thompson Luling died on 27 April 1968, aged 65, at Reigate Heath, Surrey, England.