Elected: 2025
Lucasta Miller is a critic and scholar, best known on both sides of the Atlantic for her influential book The Bronte Myth. Her articles and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the Guardian, where she was a longform profile-writer. Formerly deputy literary editor of the Independent, and later editorial director of Notting Hill Editions, she was shortlisted for the NBCC awards for her biography of the female Romantic poet “L.E.L.” Her most recent book is Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
