H. F. M. Prescott
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Hilda Francis Margaret Prescott (1896 - 1972)
H F M Prescott, FRSL, author, academic and historian, was born Feb 22, 1896 in Cheshire, the daughter of Rev James Mulleneux Prescott and Margaret Prescott (nee Warburton). She was educated at Wallasey High School, Cheshire. At Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford) she read Modern History and went on to receive her first MA there; subsequently receiving an MA at Manchester University, where she did research under the direction of T F Tout, professor of Medieval and Modern History. Hilda Prescott was conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Durham.
H F M Prescott is best known for her historical novel The Man on a Donkey and her biography of Mary I of England, Mary Tudor (originally titled Spanish Tudor), which won the James Tait Black Prize in 1941. The book remains one of the leading works on Mary I's troubled life and reign. Hilda Prescott wrote only one thriller, Dead and Not Buried, and this was adapted for CBS's Climax! television series under the screen title of Bury Me Later in 1954.
The daughter of a clergyman, H F M Prescott was a committed member of the Church of England and her wide-ranging interests included travel and a deep love of the English countryside. She was a woman of refined but simple tastes, and lived for many years quietly with her dogs in the Oxfordshire village of Charlbury.
Bibliography
- The Unhurrying Chase (1925)
- The Lost Fight (1928)
- Flamenca (1930)
- Son of Dust (1932)
- Dead and Not Buried (1938)
- Spanish Tudor (1940)
- The Man on a Donkey (1952)
- Jerusalem Journey (1954)
- Once to Sinai (1957)
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