Hilda Nickson
Hilda Pressley Nickson | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hilda Pressley 18 November 1912 Maltby,[disambiguation needed] England, UK |
| Died | 1977 (aged 64–65)[1] |
| Pen name | Hilda Nickson, Hilda Pressley, Hilary Preston[2] |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1957-1977 |
| Genre | Romance |
| Spouse | Arthur Nickson |
Hilda Nickson, née Pressley (18 November 1912 – 1977) was a British writer of over 60 romance novels published from 1957 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 to the writer Arthur Nickson (1902-1974).
Biography
Hilda Pressley was born on 18 November 1912 in Maltby,[disambiguation needed] England, UK. She married the Western fiction novelist Arthur (Thomas) Nickson (a.k.a. Arthur Hodson, Roy Peters, John Saunders, and Matt Winstan).[4]
She published her first novels as Hilda Nickson at Herbert Jenkins in the 1950s, before being taken on at Mills & Boon under her married name and as Hilda Pressley. Most of her novels were republished under the Harlequin imprint, sometimes with different titles. Her first novels were popular doctor-nurse romances; love triangles frequently feature in her plots, and she also set her novels in Italy or Spain.
Hilda Pressley Nickson died in 1977.
Bibliography
As Hilda Nickson
Single novels
- Love is the Anchor (1957) a.k.a. A Kiss for Elaine
- The Tender Heart (1957)
- Her Foolish Heart (1958) a.k.a. Nurse Foster's Foolish Heart
- The Gentle Wind (1958)
- He Whom I Love (1959) a.k.a. Doctor Phillip
- With You Beside Me (1959)
- 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) a.k.a. 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)
Series
- Junior Theatre Sister (1962) a.k.a. Operation Love
- Surgeons in Love (1962) a.k.a. Something Personal
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
Single novels
- Theatre Sister (1960) a.k.a. Theatre Nurse
- Night Nurse Lucy (1960) a.k.a. Night Nurse
- Love, the Surgeon (1961)
- Staff Nurse on Gynae (1961)
- Staff Nurses in Love (1962)
- Night Admission (1962)
- Night Sister in Charge (1963) a.k.a. 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) a.k.a. A Life to Share (1962)
- Nurse Angela (1961)
- Man of the Trees (1978)
References and sources
- ^ Jennifer Mossman (1981), New Pseudonyms and Nicknames
- ^ Past RNA Officers
- ^ The Author's & Writer's Who's Who, 1960
- ^ Hilda Nickson at fantasticfiction
- ^ Hilda Pressley at fantasticfiction
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