Susan, Lady Chitty (née Hopkinson; 18 August 1929 – 13 July 2021) was an English novelist and a writer of biographies.
Her memoir on her mother, which was viewed as a "literary assassination",[1] caused an uproar with writers and family.
Lyndall's father was Tom Hopkinson, who later adopted Susan and she returned to live with him and her mother.
The couple published one book together on their travels with two of their children from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, to Greece.
[5] This was the start of her writing biographies, mostly on Victorian era figures including Charles Kingsley, Sir Henry Newbolt, and Gwen John.
[1] The book sparked a bitter reaction from her sister Lyndall Hopkinson, who published her own memoir a year later to dispute Susan's recollection.