Sylvia Thompson was a novelist, writer and public speaker.
She attended Somerville College, Oxford like her mother. Other literary contemporaries at Somerville College included Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby, Hilda Reid and Margaret Kennedy. She established her reputation as a public orator, and in 1932, she joined the lecture circuit in the United States.
She married in 1926 & had three daughters.
Sylvia Thompson Luling died on 27 April 1968, aged 65, at Reigate Heath, Surrey, England.