Felicity Bryan is founder of Felicity Bryan Associates, a literary agency based in Oxford. She is co-founder of the Laurence Stern Fellowship on the Washington Post.

Bryan, the second of three daughters of Paul Bryan and Betty Bryan, was brought up in Yorkshire. She took a degree in History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London University.

Journalism

From 1968 to 970 she worked with Joe Rogaly on the Financial Times

Financial Times

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 in Washington DC. She then returned to London to write for the American Survey of The Economist

The Economist

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From 1975 - 1979 she wrote the weekly Gardening Column for the London Evening Standard.
She has contributed articles to many UK newspapers.

In 1980, with Godfrey Hodgson and Benjamin Bradlee, she founded the Laurence Stern Fellowship in memory of her friend Larry Stern. Every year it sends a young British journalist to work on the Washington Post. Alumni include James Naughtie

James Naughtie

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, Lionel Barber

Lionel Barber

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, Mary Ann Seighart, Cathy Newman and Gary Younge

Gary Younge

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Literary Agency

In 1973 she joined the London literary agency Curtis Brown where she remained for 15 years.
By 1988 she had moved with her family to Oxford, saw it as an ideal place for a literary agency and started Felicity Bryan Ltd. She represents major international authors including Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong

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, Iain Pears

Iain Pears

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, Rosamunde Pilcher

Rosamunde Pilcher

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, Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley

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, Diarmaid Macculloch , John Julius Norwich

John Julius Norwich

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 and Edmund de Waal

Edmund de Waal

Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal OBE is a British ceramic artist, and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes . He has worked as a curator, lecturer, art critic and art historian and is a Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster. He has received several awards and honours for his...

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By 2010 the agency had expanded and underwent a management buyout with her colleagues Catherine Clarke and Caroline Wood becoming co-owners of the newly formed Felicity Bryan Associates Ltd.

In 2010 Bryan was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Oxford Brookes University for her work in publishing.

Publications

• The Town Gardener’s Companion (Andre Deutsch/ Penguin)

• A Garden for Children (Michael Joseph

• Nursery Style - with Annie Sloane (Viking

• Once we had a Daughter (The Guardian)

Personal

She is married to the economist Alex Duncan of The Policy Practice and lives near Oxford. They have had three children: Alice Mary Duncan (born June 1982, died November 2004), Maxim Paul Duncan (born October 1983) and Benjamin Patrick Duncan (born May 1987).
Her elder sister Dr Elizabeth Bryan, founder of The Multiple Births Foundation, died in 2008.
Her younger sister Bernadette Hingley was one of the first British women to be ordained as a priest in the Church of England

Church of England

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. She died in 1995.

Other Activities

She is a trustee of Equilibrium - The Bipolar Foundation.
She is passionate about ballet and opera and represents the dancer Carlos Acosta for his memoir and writings.
She is a Patron of the Woodstock Literary Festival and a Sponsor of The Oxford Literary Festival.