HFM Prescott

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HFM Prescott , full name Hilda Francis Margaret Prescott (born February 22, 1896 in Cheshire , † 1972 ) was a British writer and historian .

life and work

The daughter of Anglican pastor James Mulleneux Prescott attended Wallasey High School in Cheshire. She graduated from the University of Oxford with a Master of Arts degree in modern history . She then moved to the University of Manchester , where she conducted research under the historian Thomas Frederick Tout and earned another master's degree.

In 1958 she was named Jubilee Research Fellow of the Royal Holloway College, University of London . There she worked with Thomas Wolsey.

Prescott lived in seclusion with her dogs for many years in the Oxfordshire village of Charlbury .

She was an honorary doctorate from the University of Durham and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

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From the mid-1920s, Prescott published several novels and historical non-fiction books. In 1941 she won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her biography of Queen Mary I of England in 1940 . The book is considered to be the monarch's best biography. The historical novel The Man on a Donkey from 1952 reports on the Catholic rebellion Pilgrimage of Grace at the time of Henry VIII. Her books Jerusalem Journey (1954) and Once to Sinai (1957) are based on the travelogues of the Ulm Dominican Felix Fabri . Prescott's only thriller Dead and Not Buried was filmed as a TV series in 1954 under the title Bury Me Later .

Works

  • The Unhurrying Chase , 1925
  • The Lost Fight , 1928
  • Son of Dust , 1932; German: Born from dust , 1960
  • Dead and Not Buried , 1938
  • Spanish Tudor , 1940; 2nd expanded edition as Mary Tudor , 1962; German: Maria Tudor , 1966
  • The Man on a Donkey , 1952; German: The man on the donkey , 1953
  • Jerusalem Journey , 1954; German: Felix Fabris Journey to Jerusalem , 1960
  • Once to Sinai. The Further Pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri , 1957

Translation:

  • Flamenca , attributed to “Bernardet the Troubadour”, translated from the 13th century Provençal, 1930

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personal data
SURNAME Prescott, HFM
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prescott, Hilda Francis Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheshire county
DATE OF DEATH 1972