Roma Lister was a folklorist, medium, and occult writer who was mostly active in the early 20th century. Her literary associates and spiritual collaborators included a number of widely published journalists, including Charles G. Leland, Lilian Whiting, and W.T. Stead.
A close friend and research partner of Leland in the 1890s, she has been cited as a possible co-author of or contributor to Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, an apocryphal scripture of Italian witchcraft.
In her memoirs, Reminiscences: Social and Political (1926) and Further Reminiscences: Occult and Social (1927), Lister wrote extensively about her encounters with mediumistic phenomena, ghostlore, and witchcraft.
Arild Rosenkrantz, the noted Danish painter and Anthroposophist, was her first cousin.