Miranda Jane Seymour (born 8 August 1948) is an English literary critic, novelist and biographer of Robert Graves, Mary Shelley and Jean Rhys among others.
[12] In 1982, Seymour turned to biography, beginning with a group portrait of Henry James in his later years, entitled A Ring of Conspirators.
[13] This was followed by biographies of Lady Ottoline Morrell,(updated in 2024)[14] Mary Shelley[15] and Robert Graves,[16] upon whom she also based a novel, The Telling,[17] and a radio play, Sea Music.
The book provided the material for an exhibition about Helle Nice on show until October 2025 at the Mac Museum at Singen, Germany.
Formerly a Visiting Professor of English Studies at the University of Nottingham Trent,[29] Seymour is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King's College London.