Emeritus Professor Warwick Gould is a scholar of English and Irish Literature and the history of the book. He was a Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London until 2013 and was the Founder Director of the Institute of English Studies within the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. He has published regularly on Yeats.

Fedora was a long time active member of Friends of Fryer, back when the Friends, were bringing instrumental in getting manuscript material for the Fryer Library. She and her husband Len Fisher, secured for the Fryer Library the papers of Sir Raphael Cilento, John Cooper, Dick Roughsey and Percy Trezise, and the McConnel Family.