Occupation novelist Genre Romance Spouse Arthur Nickson Period 1957-1977 Died 1977 | Nationality British Role Writer Language English Name Hilda Nickson | |
Born Hilda Pressley
18 November 1912
Maltby, England, UK ( 1912-11-18 ) Pen name Hilda Nickson,
Hilda Pressley,
Hilary Preston Books Lord of the Forest, A Friend of the Family, Island in the Sun | ||
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. She was married to the writer Arthur Nickson (1902-1974).
Biography
Hilda Pressley was born on 18 November 1912 in Maltby, England, UK. She married the Western fiction novelist Arthur (Thomas) Nickson (a.k.a. Arthur Hodson, Roy Peters, John Saunders, and Matt Winstan).
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.