Sylvia Thompson

Sylvia Thompson (Mrs. Theodore Luling) (September 4, 1902 – April 27, 1968) was an English novelist, writer and public speaker.

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 also joined the lecture circuit in the United States. Her obituary appeared in The Times in 1968 and praised her "rich descriptive powers" along her "skill in analyzing people's emotions".

In 1926, she married an artist named Theodore Peter Dunham Luling ("Peter Luling"), with whom she had three daughters: Rosemary (Rosemary Haughton, theologian), Virginia Luling (anthropologist) and Elizabeth (Elizabeth Dooley), actress.

Works