Estates
RCW Legacy is proud to offer expert care and advocacy to a prestigious list of literary estates - spanning some of the most influential and beloved literary voices of the last one hundred years - as well as bespoke strategy and brand consultancy across the agency’s distinguished backlist.
Led by award-winning estates and backlist expert Becky Brown, who established the division in 2025, Legacy works collaboratively within RCW to offer world-class, global representation that nurtures and protects our clients’ work, now and for generations to come.
Estates
- Lord Noel Annan
- Paul Bailey
- Diccon Bewes
- Clare Boylan
- Julia Briggs
- A.S.Byatt
- Carmen Callil
- Antonio Carluccio
- Dora Carrington
- Angela Carter
- Constantine Cavafy
- David Cesarani
- Raymond Chandler
- Nick Clarke
- Cyril Connolly
- Rachel Cooke
- William Corlett
- Michael Cox
- Deborah Devonshire
- Jenny Diski
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dorothy Edwards
- Elizabeth Elgin
- Elaine Everest
- J.G.Farrell
- Elaine Feinstein
- Eva Figes
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Paul Foot
- Juliet Gardiner
- Henrietta Garnett
- Alasdair Gray
- Ruth Hamilton
- John Harding
- Rosie Harris
- Peter Hart
- David Hockney
- Anthony Holden
- Alan Isler
- Kevin Jackson
- Robert Kee
- Sir Ludovic Kennedy
- Miles Kington
- Hugh Leonard
- Anthony Levi
- Norman Lewis
- Callum MacDonald
- Magnus Magnusson
- David Malouf
- Kirsty McLeod
- Gita Mehta
- Nancy Mitford
- Frank Muir
- Sean O'Faolain
- Julia O'Faolain
- Frances Partridge
- Brian Patten
- John Pearson
- Kate Petty
- Roy Porter
- Peter Porter
- Sir Terry Pratchett
- Mordecai Richler
- Joan G.Robinson
- Marcus Sedgwick
- Alan Sillitoe
- Sir Mark Tully
- Brenda Walker
- P.G.Wodehouse
- Francis Wyndham
