Shirley Robin Letwin graduated from the University of Chicago, where she was taught by Friedrich Hayek, and did graduate studies at the London School of Economics. She moved to England in 1965, where she taught at the London School of Economics and at Peterhouse, a college of the University of Cambridge. She wrote many books about conservatism, and one about Anthony Trollope. She worked for Margaret Thatcher and also for the Centre for Policy Studies. She was also close to Michael Oakeshott and later became his literary executor. In 1987, she gave a lecture at the Centre for Independent Studies which was later published in the collection Traditions of Liberalism.
Shirley Robin Letwin