H. F. M. Prescott
HFM Prescott Hilda Francis 's full name is Margaret Prescott ( born February 22, 1896 in the county of Cheshire, † 1972) was a British writer and historian.
Life and work
The daughter of the Anglican priest James Mulleneux Prescott attended Wallasey High School in Cheshire. A Study of Modern History at the University of Oxford, she graduated with a Master of Arts. She then moved to the University of Manchester, where she did research under the historian Thomas Frederick Tout, and another master's degrees earned.
In 1958 she was appointed Jubilee Research Fellow of the Royal Holloway College, University of London. There she worked with Thomas Wolsey.
Prescott lived for many years retired with their dogs in the village of Charlbury in Oxfordshire.
She was honorary doctorate from the University of Durham and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Work
From the mid- 1920s, Prescott has published several novels and historical nonfiction. For her biography of England's Queen Mary I of 1940, she won the James Tait Black Memorial 1941 Prize. The book is considered the best biography of the monarch. The historical novel The Man on a Donkey from 1952 reports on the Catholic Pilgrimage of Grace rebellion at the time of Henry VIII your books Jerusalem Journey ( 1954) and Once to Sinai ( 1957) based on the travelogues of Ulm Dominican monk Felix Fabri. Prescott only thriller Dead and Not Buried 1954 was filmed as a television series titled Bury Me Later.
Works
- The Unhurrying Chase, 1925
- 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: Mary Tudor, 1966
- The Man on a Donkey, 1952; German: The man on the donkey, 1953
- Jerusalem Journey, 1954; German: Felix Fabris trip to Jerusalem, 1960
Translation:
- Flamenca, " Bernardet the Troubadour " attributed, translated from the Provencal of the 13th century, 1930