Nicola Beauman is the author of a book about inter-war women writers A Very Great Profession and of three literary
biographies of Lady Cynthia Asquith, EM Forster and the novelist Elizabeth Taylor. She founded Persephone Books in 1999 in order to reprint (mostly) women writers. Many of the one hundred or so authors reprinted by Persephone were once members of the Society of Authors (indeed, it looks after a few of their Estates) which is why it is particularly pleasing for Nicola to have been asked to be a Fellow.