About Meriol Trevor
Lived 1919 – 2000 (aged 80). Meriol Trevor was a British writer, novelist and poet.
Meriol Trevor (15 April 1919 – 12 January 2000) was a British Roman Catholic writer of children's books, historical novels and biographies. Her two-volume biography of Cardinal Newman won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1963.
Biography Meriol Trevor was born in London and grew up in Kent and Cambridge. She was educated at Perse Girls' School, Cambridge and St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she studied classics and philosophy. After graduating from Oxford in 1942, she took several temporary jobs before going to Italy after the war to help with reconstruction.
From the 1960s, Trevor lived in Bath, Somerset. In 1967 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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British writer (1919-2000)
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Meriol Trevor was born on 15 April 1919 in London.
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Meriol Trevor was a writer, novelist and poet.
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