Alumni include James Naughtie, Lionel Barber, Mary Ann Sieghart, Cathy Newman and Gary Younge.
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 represented major international authors, including Karen Armstrong, Iain Pears, Rosamunde Pilcher, Matt Ridley, Diarmaid MacCulloch, John Julius Norwich and Edmund de Waal.
[6] She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to publishing.
[8] Her elder sister, Dr Elizabeth Bryan, founder of The Multiple Births Foundation, died in 2008.
Her younger sister Bernadette Hingley, who was one of the first British women to be ordained as a priest in the Church of England, died in 1995.