Hilda Nickson
| Hilda Pressley Nickson |
| Born |
Hilda Pressley
November 18, 1912(1912-11-18)
Maltby, England, UK |
| Died |
1977 (aged 64–65)[1] |
| Pen name |
Hilda Nickson,
Hilda Pressley,
Hilary Preston[2] |
| Occupation |
novelist |
| Language |
English |
| Nationality |
British |
| Period |
1958-1977 |
| Genres |
Romance |
| Spouse(s) |
Arthur Nickson |
Hilda Nickson, née Pressley (b. 18 November 1912 in Maltby, England - d. 1977) was a British writer of over 60 romance novels from 1958 to 1977, under her married and maiden name, and as Hilda Pressley. She was vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association.[3] She was married with the also English writer Arthur Nickson (1902-1974).
Biography
Hilda Pressley was born on 18 November 1912 in Maltby, England, UK. Hilda married with the Western fiction novelist Arthur (Thomas) Nickson (aka Arthur Hodson, Roy Peters, John Saunders, and Matt Winstan).[4]
She published her first novels as Hilda Nickson at Herbert Jenkins at 1950s, before start to work to Mills & Boon under her married name and as Hilda Pressley, most of her novels were reedited by Harlequin, in some cases by differents titles. She focused her first novels on the popular Doctor-Nurse romances, and are frecuently found triangles of love in her plots, and she also setting her novels in Italy or Spain.
Hilda Pressley Nickson died in 1977.
Bibliography
As Hilda Nickson
[5]
Series
- Junior Theatre Sister (1962) aka Operation Love
- Surgeons in Love (1962) aka Something Personal
Single novels
- Her Foolish Heart (1958) aka Nurse Foster's Foolish Heart
- He Whom I Love (1959) aka Doctor Phillip
- Love the Physician (1960)
- Staff Nurse At St. Christopher's (1961)
- Quayside Hospital (1962)
- Sister of Nightingale (1963)
- Tender Nurse (1963)
- For Love of a Surgeon (1964)
- Forest Hospital (1964)
- The World of Nurse Mitchell (1964)
- Wind over the Broads (1964)
- Sister at Butlin's (1965)
- Take My Hand (1965)
- Season of Mists (1966) aka Nurse Adele
- Sisters in Love (1966)
- Surgeon at Witteringham (1966)
- A Friend of the Family (1967)
- Until you came (1967)
- Gather Then the Rose (1968)
- Fair Blows the Wind (1969)
- Moonlight on the Water (1969)
- This Desirable Residence (1969)
- To My Dear Niece (1970)
- On a May Morning (1970)
- No Enemy (1971)
- The Sweet Spring (1972)
- Surgeon's Return (1973)
- Lord of the Forest (1973)
- To Have and to Hold (1974)
- Story of Love (1974)
- Island in the Sun (1975)
- To Care Again (1977)
- Now with His Love (1977)
- Voyage of Discovery (1987)
- So Tempting an Offer (1988)
Anthologies in collaboration
- It Began in Te Rangi / The Gentle Flame / To My Dear Niece (1976) (with Gloria Bevan and Katrina Britt)
As Hilda Pressley
[6]
Single novels
- Theatre Sister (1960) aka Theatre Nurse
- Night Nurse Lucy (1960) aka Night Nurse
- Love, the Surgeon (1961)
- Staff Nurse on Gynae (1961)
- Staff Nurses in Love (1962)
- Night Admission (1962)
- Night Sister in Charge (1963) aka Night Superintendent
- The Gentle Surgeon (1963)
- Journey to Love (1964)
- Nurse's Dilemma (1965)
- Where Lies the Fault (1965)
- Senior Staff Nurse (1966)
- The Newcomer (1966)
- Venetian Love Song (1966)
- A Love of Her Own (1967)
- Man of the Forest (1968)
- Suddenly, It Was Spring (1968)
- Man in Possession (1969)
- More Than Gold (1969)
- To the Highest Bidder (1970)
- Summer to Remember (1971)
- Harbinger of Spring (1971)
- When Winter Has Gone (1971)
Anthologies in collaboration
- Deep in the Forest / Lord of the Forest / When Winter Has Gone (1981) (with Joyce Dingwell and Rachel Ford)
As Hilary Preston
Single novels
- Night Sister in Love (1959)
- Nurse Jane and Doctor John (1961) aka A Life to Share (1962)
- Nurse Angela (1961)
- Man of the Trees (1978)
References and sources
| Persondata |
| Name |
Hammie Nickson, Hilda |
| Alternative names |
Nickson, Hilda (pseudonym); Pressley, Hilda (pseudonym) |
| Short description |
British novelist |
| Date of birth |
18 November 1912 |
| Place of birth |
Maltby, England, UK |
| Date of death |
1977 |
| Place of death |
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