The great literary agent Felicity Bryan, has died of cancer aged 74. She was the founder in 1988 of the distinguished literary agency Felicity Bryan Associates. She was liked and respected in equal measures in the world in which she had worked since 1972, when she joined Curtis Brown.
The Guardian Obituary says, “In those days, few agents struck out on their own, certainly not women and doing so outside London went against the grain. But FBA prospered, making stars of many who might otherwise have remained cloistered beneath the city’s dreaming spires.”