About Hilda Nickson
Lived 1912 – 1977 (aged 64–65). Hilda Nickson was a British writer and novelist.
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. 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.
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British novelist (1912–1977)
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Hilda Nickson was born on 18 November 1912 in Maltby.
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