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HASKINS, MINNIE LOUISE (12 May 1875 – 3 Feb 1957)
1920s – 1930s
Haskins was rocketed to lasting fame when lines from her poem "The
Gate of the Year" were read on BBC by George VI in a Christmas 1939
broadcast. The poem was immortalized, and was also read at the funeral of
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 2002. Haskins had also written two
novels, the semi-autobiographical Through Beds of Stone (1928) and A Few People (1932),
which the Spectator described as
"a sympathetic story … which would have been even better without an
improbable small boy, too much dialect, and too much hazy sentiment."
She worked for many years at the London School of Economics.
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HASSETT, MARGARET (c1898 - ????)
(pseudonym of Kathleen
Daly)
1930s – 1940s
Sister of Anne DALY. Author of four novels, including Educating Elizabeth (1937) and its sequel Beezer's End (1949), about discontent among the staff of a girls'
school, Sallypark (1945), about
three daughters carrying on love affairs behind their strict father’s back,
and Next to These Ladies (1940). I
wrote about two of the novels here.
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HASTED, JANE ELIZA (24 Dec 1909 - 1999)
1930s – 1940s
Biographer and author of four novels—Our
Mr. Richards (1933), Racing Demon
(1936), Pattern of People (1947),
and The Young Dorothea (1950). Her
two biographies are Unsuccessful
Ladies: An Intimate Account of the Aunts of Queen Victoria (1950) and The Gentle Amazon: The Life and Times of
Lady Smith (1952).
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HASTINGS, PHYLLIS [DORA] (5 Jun 1904 –
29 Nov 1994)
(née Hodge, aka John Bedford, aka Julia Mayfield)
1950s – 1980s
Author of more than 50 novels. One source refers to her as a romance writer,
though a review of Rapture in My Rags
(1954, aka Scarecrow Lover), about
a young woman who meets a murderer on the run and believes he's a scarecrow
she has inadvertently brought to life, sounds unusual to say the least. Other
titles include As Long as You Live
(1951), The Forest of Stone (1957,
apparently her only title as Julie Mayfield), Sandals for My Feet (1960), The
Night the Roof Blew Off (1962), The
Swan River Story (1968), When the
Gallows Is High (1971), The
Image-Maker (1976), A Delight of
Angels (1981), and Naked Runner
(1987). She seems to have used her John Bedford pseudonym only for
non-fiction about finding treasure in "junk shops."
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HASTINGS, VALERIE (14 Feb 1902 - 1975)
(née ???????)
Author of a "picture strip" called Wendy and Jinx, from which two school stories came—Wendy & Jinx and the Dutch Stamp
Mystery and Wendy & Jinx and
the Missing Scientist (1957)—as well as two additional school stories, Jill at Hazlemere (1964) and Jill Investigates (1965). She was
married to Michael Hastings (or at least took his name—a marriage has not
been located in the records), but her origins remain uncertain.
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Hatton, G. Noel
see CAIRD, MONA
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Havens, Allen
see ALLEN, ALICE MAUD
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HAVERFIELD, E[LEANOR]. L[UISA]. (18 Aug 1870 – 7 Feb 1945)
1890s – 1930s
Author of about 40 works of children's fiction and adult romance, including
school stories which Sims & Clare note are "redolent of the Victorian
era," praising their psychological depth. The school stories include The Ghost of Exlea Priory (1905), Audrey's Awakening (1910), The Girls of St Olave's (1919), which
features wartime air raids, The Luck of
Lois (1920), The Discovery of Kate
(1925), and Meriel's Choice (1933).
Sims and Clare also single out Joan
Tudor's Triumph (1918) for its unique tone of Gothic horror. Haverfield's
other titles include Stanhope: A
Romance of the Days of Cromwell (1902), The Squire (1903), A Human
Cypher (1909), The Ogilvies'
Adventures (1913), A Flight and a
Friendship (1926), and Through the
Green Door (1935).
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HAVERS,
ELINORE [MARY] (21 Sept 1905 – 2002)
(née Miller)
1940s – 1970s
Author of more
than a dozen children's titles, most or all of them pony stories. Titles
include Three Day Adventure (1948),
Dream Pony (1962), Gay and the Ponies (1964), Pony Sleuths (1966), and The Merry-March Ponies (1974). See here for helpful information about her books.
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Hawke,
Richard
see BAINES, JOY
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HAWKEN, [JOAN] PAMELA (26 Apr 1919 – 6
Jan 2011)
(née Bussey)
1950s
Author of three girls' career novels—Air
Hostess Ann (1952), Pan Stevens:
Secretary (1954), and Clare in
Television (1955)—and two other children's titles, Percy Popalong (1953) and Chuffalong
(1955), which may be for younger children.
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Hawker,
Mrs. Mildred
see STAFFORD, ANN
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HAWKES, [JESSIE] JACQUETTA (5 Aug 1910 – 18 Mar 1996)
(née Hopkins, later
married name Priestley)
1950s, 1980
Best known for books
on archaeology, such as The Archaeology
of Jersey (1939) and Man on Earth
(1954), and for her classic of nature writing A Land (1951), Hawkes also published one collection, Fables (1953, published in the U.S. as
A Woman as Great as the World and Other
Fables), and two novels. Kirkus called
Providence Island: An Archaeological
Tale (1959) "enchanting—a merger of the solemnity of a scientific
expedition with an adventure in complete escape." Her other novel, A Quest of Love (1980), deals with
reincarnation over thousands of years. She and her second husband, novelist
and playwright J. B. Priestley, also collaborated on several projects,
including Dragon's Mouth (1952), a
play, and Journey Down a Rainbow
(1955), about their travels in the southwestern U.S.
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HAWKS, OLIVE [ALICE KATE] (1 Jan 1917 - 1992)
(married names Burdett and
?????)
1940s
A committed member of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, Hawks was
interned for much of WWII. After the war, she published four novels—What Hope for Green Street? (1945), Time Is My Debtor (1947), These Frail Vessels (1948), and A Sparrow for a Farthing (1950).
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HAWTREY, [PHYLLIS] VALENTINA (7 Nov 1877 – 9 Feb 1953)
(aka Valentine Caryl)
1900s – 1910s
Author of seven novels about the trials and tribulations of womanhood, most
of them historical—Perronelle
(1904) is set in 15th century Paris, Suzanne
(1906) is set even earlier, while Rodmell
(1908) is a 19th century family saga. The others are A Ne'er-do-well (1903, as Valentine Caryl), In the Shade (1909), Heritage
(1912), and In a Desert Land
(1915). She also translated an Italian 14th century text called The Life of Saint Mary Magdalen
(1904). On the 1939 England & Wales Register, she is living in a convent
in Sussex.
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Hay,
Frances
see DICK, ALEXANDRA
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HAY, [AGNES BLANCHE] MARIE (6 Dec 1873 – 13 Dec 1938)
(married name von
Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg [!!!])
1900s – 1920s
Half-sister of Duff Cooper. Author of three fictionalized biographies—A German Pompadour (1906), about
Wilhelmine von Graevenitz, The Winter Queen
(1910), about Elizabeth of Bohemia, and Mas'aniello:
A Neapolitan Tragedy (1913), set during the 1647 rising in Naples. Her
final novel, The Evil Vineyard
(1923), deals with a haunted house and was reportedly of interest to Carl
Jung.
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HAY, MAVIS DORIEL (12 Feb 1894 – 26 Aug 1979)
(married name
Fitzrandolph)
1930s
Author of three mystery novels, rediscovered and reprinted by the British
Library—Murder Underground (1934), Death on the Cherwell (1935), and The Santa Klaus Murder (1936). She
also co-wrote several books about rural crafts in the 1920s. I wrote a little
about Death on the Cherwell here, and reviewed Murder Underground here.
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HAYDEN, ELEANOR G[RACE]. (1 Oct 1865 –
30 Sept 1954)
1900s – 1910s
Author of several story collections about village life in and around
Berkshire, including Travels Round Our
Village (1901), Turnpike Travellers
(1903), Rose of Lone Farm (1905),
and Islands of the Vale (1908). Her
final book, Love the Harper (1914),
may be a novel. With the advent of WWI, she did war work, became politically
involved, and appears to have stopped writing.
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Haye, Jan
see VINTON, ANNE
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HAYES, NANCY M[ABEL]. (15 Jun 1886 – 19 Apr 1929)
(went by Annie, married
name Flexman)
1920s
Author of four girls' school stories—The
Fourth Form Invaders (1924), Peg
Runs Away to School (1924), That
Turbulent Term (1926), and The
Castle School (1928)—and several other Guide and adventure stories,
including The Plucky Patrol (1924),
The Lost Cave (1926), The Boy From Nowhere (1927), Guides at Calamity Hill (1927), and Billy Lone Scout (1928).
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HAYNES, ANNIE (1865 – 30 Mar 1929)
1920s
Author of twelve mystery novels, out of print for many years until Dean
Street Press reprinted them. Titles are The
Bungalow Mystery (1923), The Abbey
Court Murder (1923), The Secret of
Greylands (1924), The Blue Diamond (1925),
The Witness on the Roof (1925), The House in Charlton Crescent (1926),
The Master of the Priory (1927), The Crow’s Inn Tragedy (1927), The Man with the Dark Beard (1928), The Crime at Tattenham Corner(1929), Who
Killed Charmian Karslake? (1929), and The
Crystal Beads Murder (1930), the last of which was completed by another
author after her death. On the basis of textual evidence, mystery scholar
Curtis Evans, in the Dean Street Press edition of that novel, speculates that
the author may have been Lucy Beatrice MALLESON, who was best known for the
mysteries she wrote under the pseudonym Anthony Gilbert. Haynes had earlier
published several novels in serial form, romantic in nature except for two—Lady Carew's Secret was an early
version of The Abbey Court Murder
and The Governess at the Priory
later became The Master of the Priory.
I wrote about Who Killed Charmian
Karslake? here.
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HAYNES, DOROTHY K[ATE]. (12 Oct 1918 –
27 Dec 1987)
1940s, 1970s
Scottish author of horror and ghost
stories, many of them uncollected until late in her life. She published three
novels—Winter's Traces
(1947), The Gibsons of Glasgow
(1947), and Haste Ye Back (1973)—a
story collection, Thou Shalt Not Suffer
a Witch and Other Stories (1949), illustrated by Mervyn Peake, and a
children's title, Robin Ritchie.
Many of her later stories appeared in Peacocks
and Pagodas and the Best of Dorothy K. Haynes (1981), though other
stories apparently remain uncollected.
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HAYNES, RENÉE [ORIANA] (23 Jul 1906 – 12 Oct 1994)
(married name Tickell)
1920s - 1930s
Married to novelist
Jerrard Tickell. Known for her writings on ESP and psychic phenomena,
including The Hidden Springs
(1972), Haynes wrote three early novels—Neapolitan
Ice (1928), about a young girl at Oxford, Immortal John (1932), and The
Holy Hunger (1936). She also published biographies of Hilaire Belloc
(1953) and Pope Benedict XIV (1970).
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HAYTER, ALETHEA [CATHERINE] (7 Nov
1911 – 10 Jan 2006)
(aka J. C. Fennessy)
1940s – 1950s
Biographer, historian, and author of five pseudonymous novels—Eden Island (1941), The Siege of Elsinore (1948), which
imagined a marriage between Hamlet and Ophelia, The Way to the Sea (1950), The
Sonnet in the Bottle (1951), and The
Londoners (1952). She is better known for the biographical A Sultry Month (1965), which traces
the lives of the Brownings and others during one month in London in the
summer of 1847, and for other scholarly and historical works, including Mrs. Browning: A Poet's Work and Its
Setting (1962), Opium and the
Romantic Imagination (1968), Horatio's
Version (1972), which offered an alternative reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet, A Voyage in Vain: Coleridge's Journey to Malta in 1804 (1973),
and The Wreck of the Abergavenny
(2002), which examined the aftereffects of an 1805 shipwreck. Several of
these titles have been reprinted by Faber Finds, and I reviewed A Sultry Month here.
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HEADLAM-MORLEY,
AGNES (10 Dec 1902 – 21 Feb 1986)
1960s
Primarily known
for her prominent work as a historian at Oxford, working largely in the area
of Anglo-German relations (perhaps inspired by the fact that her father was
English and her mother German), she qualified for this list due to a single
novella, Last Days: June 1944 to
January 1945 (1960), based on the tragedy of a friend in Berlin in the
final days of World War II.
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HEATH, IRENE [GWENDOLINE] (10 May 1905 – 16 Dec
1989)
(née Crooks)
1930s – 1940s
Author of one early children's title, The
Browser Family and Their Great Day Out (1930), and two novels, Good Luck and Goodbye (1945) and Capricorn Colony (1946). She seems to
have felt an affinity for boats, as the former is set on a voyage from a
tropical island to England, via New York, in the last year of World War II,
while the latter seems to deal with a group of holiday-makers who meet on a
voyage to the South Pacific.
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HEATH, MAUDE (dates unknown)
1930s
Unidentified author of a single historical novel, Herb o' Grace (1937), which according to a review "follows
the fortunes of her heroine through the reigns of Victoria, Edward VII, and
George V., and gives a remakably vivid impression of the changing life of the
times."
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Heath, Sharon
see BRADLEY, NORAH MARY
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HEATH, VERONICA (20 Oct 1927 – 13 May
2012)
(pseudonym of Veronica Tegner, married name
Blackett)
1950s – 1960s
Author of five pony stories—Come Riding
with Me (1955), Susan's Riding
School (1956), Ponies in the
Heather (1959), Come Show-Jumping
with Me (1961), and Come Pony
Trekking with Me (1964). See here for more information. She later wrote non-fiction
titles about horses and riding.
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HEATH-MILLER, MAVIS [BLANCHE] (22 Oct
1907 – 11 Dec 1977)
(née Blackburn)
1940s – 1970s
Author of more than 30 romantic novels, including Slightly Sophisticated (1945), We Have Our Dreams (1956), A
Hint of Spring (1960), A Single
Star (1962), Rich Relations
(1965), Scent of Summer (1970), Build a High Wall (1972), The Narrow Stair (1974), and Storm Above the Park (1976). Before
she began publishing, she ran a Studio of Dramatic Art. She later served as
secretary of the Writers Guild.
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HEATON, ROSE HENNIKER (29 Nov 1884 – 8 Oct 1975)
(married name Porter)
1930s
Author of humorous self-help guides including The Perfect Hostess (1931), The
Perfect Cruise and Other Holidays (1935), and Running a House without Help (1949). She also published a series
of humorous sketches, which just barely qualify her for this list, including Dinner with James (1931), Chez James (1932), Cruising with James (1934), and Contract with James (1935).
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HEBERDEN, MARY VIOLET (28 Feb 1906 -
1965)
(aka M. V. Heberden, aka Charles L. Leonard)
1930s – 1950s
Born in England but lived in the U.S. for most of her adult life. Stage
actress both in England and (more successfully) on Broadway, where for a year
and a half 1935-1937 she played a supporting role in Victoria Regina, which starred Helen Hayes as Queen Victoria.
Later, she was the author of more than 30 mystery and spy novels, many under
the Charles L. Leonard pseudonym (the Charles L. from her father, Charles
Lewis Heberden, a rector, who died when she was only 5, and the Leonard from
her mother's maiden name). Her series characters were Desmond Shannon, a New
York private investigator, Rick Vanner, a former Navy spy, and Paul
Kilgerrin, a wounded veteran of World War II who works with American spy
organizations, with his sidekick Gerry Cordent, a female pilot. Including all
the ones I've tracked down, with alternate titles where I know them, her
books are Death on the Doormat
(1939), Fugitive from Murder
(1940), Subscription to Murder
(1940), Aces, Eights, & Murder
(1941), The Lobster Pick Murder
(1941), Deadline for Destruction
(1942), Murder Follows Desmond Shannon
(1942), The Stolen Squadron (1942),
Murder Makes a Racket (1942), Murder Goes Astray (1943), The Fanatic of Fez (1943, aka Assignment to Death), The Secret of the Spa (1944), Murder of a Stuffed Shirt (1944), To What Dread End (1944), Expert in Murder (1945), Vicious Pattern (1945), Murder Cancels All Debts (1946), Pursuit in Peru (1946), They Can't All Be Guilty (1947), Search for a Scientist (1947), The 4th Funeral (1948), Drinks on the Victim (1948), The Case of the Eight Brothers (1948),
Sinister Shelter (1949), Engaged to Murder (1949), Exit This Way (1950, aka You'll Fry Tomorrow), Secrets for Sale (1950), That's the Spirit (1950, aka Ghosts Can't Kill), The Sleeping Witness (1951), Treachery in Trieste (1951), Tragic Target (1952), and Murder Unlimited (1953).
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HECTOR, BARBARA (12 Aug 1902 – 16 May 1985)
(aka Hester Barrie)
1940s – 1970s
Children's author and romantic novelist. She published one girls' school
story, Champions in the Making
(1943), two animal stories, The Wonder
Pony (1943) and Friskie, the Train
Saver (1943), and a mystery for children, The Moorland Mystery (1948), before turning to adult romance
novels, many set in hospitals. Titles include No Through Road (1942), The
Victim's Niece (1946), As the Stars
Fade (1947), The Rainbow Road
(1959), A Cottage for Nurse Lou
(1962), Nurse Beth of Beatrice Ward
(1965), Nurse Diana in Danger
(1968), and The Astonishing Affair
(1971).
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HEDDLE, ETHEL F[ORSTER]. (16 Dec 1862 – 7 May 1942)
(married name Marshall,
aka Ethel F. H. Marshall)
1890s – 1930s
Author of 19
volumes of fiction Three Girls in a
Flat (1896) is reportedly based on the real-life experiences of novelist
Menie Muriel Dowie (author of three novels prior to 1910), American novelist
Lillias Campbell Davidson, and poet and scholar Alice Werner, and may have
provided Thomas Hardy with inspiration for the character of Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure. Other titles are Martin Redfern's Oath (1892), Marget at the Manse (1899), A Mystery of St. Rule's (1902), The Secret of the Turret (1905), Clarinda's Quest (1910), The House of Shadows (1920), Hidden in Her Heart (1920), and The Big Adventure (1934).
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Hedworth, Barbara
see PEARSON, MOLLIE (MARY)
SUSAN SEYMOUR
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Heely,
Maureen
see BRADSHAW, NINA
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HEILGERS, LOUISE [HELENE HENRIETTA] (18 Oct 1882 – 28 Oct 1954)
(married name Granville,
aka Henrietta Heilgers)
1900s – 1920s
Periodical author and novelist. Many of her stories were collected in books
like Tabloid Tales (1911) and Somewhere in France: Stories of the Great
War (1915). She also published ten novels, including (as Henrietta
Heilgers) Stephen the Man (1909),
and under her own name The Naked Soul:
Three Years in a Woman's Life (1912), Sackcloth
and Satin (1916), Babette Wonders
Why (1916), That Red-Headed Girl
(1917), An Officer's Wife (1918), The Green Heart (1921), Love and Life (1922), The Humming-Top (1927), and The Dark Lamp (1927). You can read
more about her here.
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HELME, ELEANOR EDITH (30 Dec 1887 – 14 Mar 1967)
1930s – 1940s
Journalist and writer on
golf for women. She also published children's fiction, some of it religious
in theme and some for smaller children. She is best known now for a series
about Exmoor ponies, including Mayfly
the Grey Pony (1935), Runaway Mike
(1936), Shank's Pony (1946), Suitable Owners (1948), White Winter (1949), and Dear Busybody (1950). See here for more information and book covers.
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Heming, Eileen
see
MARSH, EILEEN
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HEINEMANN,
MARGOT [CLARE] (18 Nov 1913 – 10 Jun 1992)
1960s
Teacher,
scholar, historian, and prominent member of the Communist Party of Great
Britain, and author of a single novel, The
Adventurers (1960), described as a roman
à clef about the British Left in the 1940s and 1950s. She subsequently
co-authored, with Noreen Branson, Britain
in the 1930s (1973), and published Puritanism
and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama (1980).
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HELY,
ELIZABETH (1 Dec 1913 – 9 Mar 1981)
(pseudonym of
Nancy Elizabeth Brassey Younger, née Leslie)
1950s – 1960s
Author of four
crime novels—Dominant Third (1959,
aka I'll be Judge, I'll Be Jury), A Mark of Displeasure (1961), The Long Shot (1963), and Package Deal (1965). A Mark of Displeasure, at least,
features a French detective in Edinburgh.
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HENDERSON, JANE (11 May 1907 - ????)
1930s
Author of four romantic novels—The Gay
Forgetting (1936), Final Harvest
(1937), Halo (1937), and After the Rain (1938). She can be found
on the 1939 register living in Kent, source of her birth date, but there is
too much confusion about her middle name to pursue her further unless more
pieces fall into place.
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HENNIKER, MRS. ARTHUR (1855 – 4 Apr 1923)
(pseudonym of Florence
Ellen Hungerford Milnes)
1890s – 1910s
Best remembered now as the only author with whom Thomas Hardy ever
collaborated on a work of fiction—a story called "The Spectre of the
Real," which appeared in her collection In Scarlet and Grey: Stories of Soldiers and Others (1896)—Henniker
also published eight other volumes of fiction. Her final novel, Second Fiddle (1912), which qualifies
her for this list, deals with an unhappily married woman—OCEF called it "genuinely poignant." Other novels
include Sir George (1891), Bid Me Good-Bye (1892), Foiled (1893), Sowing the Sand (1898), and Our
Fatal Shadows (1907). In a 1917 letter, she mentions being pleased with a
new story she was working on, but it seems this work never appeared. Some
sources suggest that Hardy actively pursued a romantic relationship with
Henniker but she insisted they remain friends. His letters to her were
published as One Rare Fair Woman
(1972).
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HENRY, JOAN [CONSTANCE ANNE] (8 Apr 1914 – 15 Dec
2000)
(married names Standage and Thompson)
1940s - 1950s
Author, playwright, and screenwriter. Her earliest novels, This Many Summers (1947), Commit to Memory (1948), and Crimson Lake (1950), have been called
romances, but the first at least sounds like it has a slight edge: "A
love story in the Michael Arlen manner; scintillating and brittle, set
against a background of bookies' odds and the chink of ice in a barman's
mixer." After spending eight months in Holloway prison on forgery
charges, she published the bestselling Who
Lie in Gaol (1952) about her life in prison, followed by a novel, Yield to the Night (1954), about a
woman awaiting execution. The former inspired the film The Weak and the Wicked (1953), and the latter was made into a
film in 1956, for which Henry co-wrote the screenplay and received a BAFTA nomination.
In addition to more screenwriting, she also penned the play Look on Tempests (1960), the first
dealing with the topic of homosexuality after the Lord Chamberlain's ban on
the subject was lifted the year before, the cast of which in its first production
included Vanessa Redgrave and Gladys Cooper. Henry's second husband was film
director John Lee Thompson, whose films included The Guns of Navarone and the original Cape Fear.
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HENSON, JEAN (11 Aug 1912 – 19 Sept
1981)
(née Constable)
1940s – 1950s
Author of five children's detective tales—River
Detectives (1947), Detectives in
the Hills (1949), Detectives by the
Sea (1950), Detectives Abroad
(1952), and Detectives in Wales
(1953).
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HEPPLE, ANNE (16 Oct 1877 – 10 Nov 1959)
(pseudonym of Anne Hepple
Dickinson, née Batty)
1920s – 1940s
Author of more than 20 romantic novels about Northumberland and the Scottish
Borders. The North Wind Blows
(1941) is set during World War II and features a land girl suspected of being
a spy. The House of Gow (1948) is
the favorite of many fans—bookseller Gill Bilski described it as "[a]
love story set against a large bookshop and a borders' tower." Others
include Jemima Rides (1928), Gay Go Up (1931), Scotch Broth (1933), Heyday
and Maydays (1936), Sigh No More
(1943), and Jane of Gowlands
(1949).
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Herald, Kathleen
see PEYTON, K. M.
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HERBERT, ALICE [LOUISE GRISEWOOD] (21 Oct 1869 – 1941)
(née Baker, earlier
married name Low)
1900s – 1920s
Mother of Ivy
LITVINOV and author of five novels—The
Measure of our Youth (1909), Garden
Oats (1914), Heaven and Charing
Cross (1922), Friend, You Are Late
(1924), and A Pen and Ink Passion
(1928). OCEF describes Garden Oats as "a sharp, funny,
and probably autobiographical novel about a girl growing up and getting
married, which focuses on the social difficulties of women." On the 1939
England & Wales Register, Herbert is residing with novelist Sybil
LETHBRIDGE and her sister.
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Herbert,
Jean
see LESLIE, MARY ISABEL
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HERBERT, JOAN (29 Jan 1902 – 2 Aug 1965)
(pseudonym of Joan Doreen
Lewis)
1930s – 1950s
Author of eleven volumes of children's fiction, most either girls' school
stories or Guiding stories. Titles are Lorna's
First Term (1932), With Best
Intentions (1935), The Three Halves
(1937), The Trail of the Blue Shamrock
(1937), The Wrights are Left
(1938), One's a Pair (1939), Just an Ordinary Company (1939), Penelope the Particular (1939), A Tenderfoot's ABC (1940), Jennifer Gay (1944), and First-Time Jennifer (1959).
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HERBERTSON, AGNES GROZIER (16 Aug 1873 – 18 Jul 1958)
1890s – 1940s
Sister of Jessie Leckie HERBERTSON. Children's author and novelist whose work
seems to veer toward the melodramatic. OCEF
notes that The Ship That Came Home
in the Dark (1912) "involves a woman substituting herself for a
blind man's wife." That source also credits her with six novels in all,
but I found seven titles which look like adult fiction. The others are A Book without a Man! (1897), Patience Dean: A Study in Temperament and
Temptation (1904), The Plowers
(1906), The Summit (1909), Deborah (1911), and We Know Each Other's Faces (1947).
Much of her children's fiction seems to be for younger children.
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HERBERTSON, JESSIE LECKIE (10 Jun 1877 – 18 Jul 1958)
1900s – 1930s
Sister of Agnes
Grozier HERBERTSON. Children's author and novelist. Her children's fiction
includes several school stories—Betsy-Go-Lucky
of the Fourth (1923), Schooldays at
Beverley (1927), A Disagreeable
Girl (1927), A New Girl at Maltby
(1927), The Fourth Form at Beverley
(1928), and Another Pair of Shoes
(1929). She seems to have published six adult novels earlier in her career,
including The Stigma (1905), Mortal Men (1907), Junia (1908), Young Life (1911), Borrowers
of Fortune (1912), and Crofton's
Daughter (1919).
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HERD, [MARGARET] MURIEL [DE MILFONTES]
(2 Jan 1880 – 8 Oct 1944)
(married name Smart)
1890s, 1920s
Apparently the author of only two books, separated by more than 30 years—The Solo Boy and Other Stories (1895)
and Gill and the Others
(1927)—about which little information is available.
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Heritage,
A. J.
see ADAIR, HAZEL (1900-1990)
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HERON-MAXWELL, BEATRICE (1859 – 7 Mar 1927)
(née Eastwick, first
married name Huddart)
1900s – 1920s
Mother of Gladys HUDDART and sister of Florence E. EASTWICK. Author of four
romantic novels, including A Woman's
Soul (1900), The Queen Regent
(1903), The Fifth Wheel (1916), and
The Tenth Step (1923), the first
and third of which were written with her sister. She also published a book of
essays called Through a Woman's Eyes
(1917).
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HERVEY, JANE (10 Sept 1920 – 23 Jan
2019)
(pseudonym of Naomi Blanche Thoburn
McGaw, married names Jones, Wilder, & Bowlby)
1950s
Author of a single novel, Vain Shadow
(1963), reprinted by Persephone in 2015, which they describe as a
"unique, astute and very funny black comedy." Though published
after the end of this list's time frame, it was actually written in the early
1950s.
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HESELTINE, OLIVE (22 Nov 1878 – 24 Nov
1950)
(née Ilbert, aka Jane Dashwood)
1920s – 1930s
Critic, essayist, and memoirist under her real name, who wrote two
pseudonymous novels—Three Daughters
(1929), set in London society at the turn of the century, and The Month of May (1931), with a
heroine torn between love and her duty to her aging parents. I reviewed those
here. She also published Conversation (1927), a guide to dinner-party repartee, and a
memoir, Lost Content (1948).
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HESSELL TILTMAN, MARJORIE [GWENDOLINE]
(17 Jun 1900 – 26 Feb 1999)
(née Hand)
1930s – 1960s
Journalist, biographer, memoirist, and author of nine novels. Her father was
a successful art dealer and presumably influenced her debut novel, Quality Chase (1939), which was,
according to the Guardian, "as
convincing on the human side as it is brilliant in its evocation of bustling
Birmingham and the policies, the humours, and the drama of the antique trade."
Goodbye to Lilly House (1948) is a
family saga—"The background is first the heterogeneous art world at the
turn of the century, then theatrical circles as the stage first met the
challenge of movies, and finally a Fleet Street scene of English journalism."
She and her husband traveled extensively in Asia, and she used those
backgrounds in Born a Woman (1951),
about several women in Japan in the aftermath of World War II, and Master Sarah (1959), about the opium
wars in China. Other novels are Mrs
Morel (1942), Cock's Nest
(1954), Quality Chase's Daughter
(1955), The Bridge of Love (1963),
and Fanny's Farewell (1967).
Hessell Tiltman also published a trio of memoirs of farming life—Cottage Pie (1940), A Little Place in the Country (1944),
and The Birds Began to Sing
(1952)—and two volumes of biographical pieces, God's Adventurers (1933), about missionaries, and Women in Modern Adventure (1935).
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HEWARD, CONSTANCE (12 Mar 1884 - 1968)
1920s – 1960s
Children's author known for
her series for younger children about Ameliaranne, a Polyanna-ish girl who
helps out her impoverished family, starting with Ameliaranne and the Green Umbrella (1920). A few of her titles do
seem to be for older children, including Benjy
Comes (1931), Jonathan's Children
(1963), and The House on the Edge of
the Moor (1968).
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HEWARD, F. M. (dates unknown)
1940s
Untraced author of a single girls' school story, Susan the Beast (1949).
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HEWETT, HILDA [MARIAN] (25 Aug 1904 – 13 Dec 1991)
(née Morley, aka Clare
Compton)
1940s – 1960s
Author of
nearly twenty works of fiction, including at least two children's titles—Pantomime Christmas (1955) and Harriet and the Cherry Pie (1964), the
latter (published in the U.K. under her "Clare Compton" pseudonym
but under her own name in the U.S.) about two girls who spend several months
in London with their aunt who runs a teashop. It was reviewed in No. 5 of The Scribbler. Hewett's novels for adults include Farewell Solitude (1942), Spring
Serenade (1943), Dancing Starlight
(1945), Kaleidoscope (1947), The Desert Shall Rejoice (1950), The Cactus Flower (1953), A Week at the Seaside (1955), Autumn Fires (1958), and A Calculated Risk (1964). I've written
about her several times—see here.
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HEWITSON, ANNE (dates unknown)
1920s
Untraced author of a single short romance, The Dancer (1929).
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HEWITT, KATHLEEN [DOUGLAS] (11 Nov
1893 – 12 Jun 1980)
(née Brown, earlier married name Pitcher, aka
Dorothea Martin)
1930s – 1950s
Author of nearly two dozen novels, including mysteries and thrillers. Her
wartime works include the energetic thrillers Lady Gone Astray (1941), about a young heiress with amnesia up
against unscrupulous refugees, and The
Mice Are Not Amused (1942), about a legal secretary who takes a job as
doorman at a block of flats infested with Fifth Columnists. Her 1943 novel, Plenty Under the Counter, deals with
the black market. Other titles include A
Pattern in Yellow (1932), Black
Sunshine (1933, as Dorothea Martin), Comedian
(1934), Go Find a Shadow (1937), Stand-in for Danger (1940), Murder in the Ballroom (1948), Still the World Is Young (1951), and Harmony in Autumn (1955). She also
published a memoir, The Only Paradise
(1945). (Thank you to Grant Hurlock for information on this author.)
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HEWLETT, DOROTHY [KATE] (25 Oct 1893 – 1979)
(married name Kilgour)
1930s – 1950s
Playwright, biographer, and novelist. She published several one-act plays
1929-1937, followed by Adonais: A Life
of John Keats (1937). Some of her novels, at least, are set in the early
Victorian world she had researched for that book, including Victorian House (1939), which harked
back stylistically (and, at 500+ pages, in girth) to classic Victorian
novels, and A Shocking Bad Hat
(1941), a "mystery melodrama beginning in an alley off Holborn and
ending with a chase in the sewers" (Observer).
The others are Better Than Figs
(1943), The Two Rapps (1944), The Flying Horse (1946), and The Flowing Tide (1955). She published
a second biography, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning (1953), and, much later, a short historical work, Harrogate College 1893-1973 (1981).
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HEYER, GEORGETTE (16 Aug 1902 – 5 Jul 1974)
(married name Rougier, aka
Stella Martin)
1920s – 1970s
Author of nearly 60 novels, including dozens of the Regency romances for
which she's best known, including These
Old Shades (1926), Royal Escape
(1938), The Reluctant Widow (1946),
Arabella (1949), The Grand Sophy (1950), Cotillion (1953), Bath Tangle (1955), and The
Unknown Ajax (1959). She also wrote 12 popular, clever mystery novels
(apparently with some assistance from her husband in formulating the
puzzles)—Footsteps in the Dark
(1932), Why Shoot a Butler? (1933),
The Unfinished Clue (1934), Death in the Stocks (1935), Behold, Here's Poison (1936), They Found Him Dead (1937), A Blunt Instrument (1938), No Wind of Blame (1939), Envious Casca (1941), Penhallow (1942), Duplicate Death (1951), and Detection
Unlimited (1953). Among her earliest novels were four with contemporary
settings, which she apparently tried to suppress in later years as being too
autobiographical and too revealing of her own life. These are Instead of the Thorn (1923), Helen
(1928), Pastel (1929), and Barren Corn (1930). Heyer's third
novel, The Transformation of Philip
Jettan (1923, later reprinted as Powder
and Patch) was first published under her pseudonym. I wrote about Bath Tangle here.
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HIBBERT, ELEANOR [ALICE] (1 Sept 1906 – 19 Jan 1993)
(née Burford, aka Eleanor
Burford, aka Jean Plaidy, aka Elbur Ford, aka Ellalice Tate, aka Kathleen
Kellow, aka Victoria Holt, aka Philippa Carr)
1940s – 1990s
Author of
nearly 200 novels under her multiple pseudonyms. Her earliest works,
beginning in 1941, were traditional romances under her maiden name, Eleanor
Burford, but in the mid-1940s she began writing historical fiction under her
Jean Plaidy pseudonym. By the late 1950s, she had used the name Elbur Ford
for four novels based around well-known Victorian crimes, and the names
Kathleen Kellow and Ellalice Tate for lighter historical romances. Her
biggest success, however, began in 1960 with Mistress of Mellyn (1960), the first of 31 Gothic romances under the
name Victoria Holt—which, interesting, was believed by many readers at the
time to be a pseudonym of Daphne DU MAURIER. Thereafter, she focused on Holt
and Plaidy titles until 1972, when she created her Philippa Carr pseudonym
for 19 novels which have been called "historical Gothics." Her
titles are far too numerous to list, but her entry in Contemporary Popular Writers sums up by saying Hibbert's best
work "wove fascinating facts drawn from English history into simply
written, compelling tales of mystery, intrigue, and of course, passion."
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HICHENS, JACOBINE [NAPIER] (4 Oct 1920 – 21 May 1971)
(neé Menzies-Wilson, later
married name Sackville-West)
1950s
Cousin by marriage of Vita SACKVILLE-WEST and daughter of Jacobine
MENZIES-WILSON. Barrister and author of three novels—Noughts and Crosses (1952, aka The Marriage of Elizabeth Whitacker), about the engagement of an
Anglican woman to a Catholic man, Touch
and Go (1953), about the troubled relations among a group of young people
in London, and Profit and Loss
(1955), about a beautiful singer who is caught up in World War II in Asia,
spends time in a prison camp, and returns to postwar London to face up to the
complicated relationships that have resulted. Hichens was married to Lionel
Bertrand Sackville-West, the 6th Lord Sackville, and lived at Knole from 1960
until her death.
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HICKEY, T[HEODOSIA]. F[RANCES]. W[YNNE]. (1 Apr 1895 – 25 Dec 1956)
(née Hannay)
1930s – 1940s
Author of
eleven volumes of fiction, including at least two mystery novels, The Corpse in the Church (1934) and The Hand, or, Mystery at Number Ten
(1937). Other novels are Semi-Detached
(1932), Easter Week (1933), The Birthday Party (1934), Nancy Emery (1935), and Oh, Mrs. Hopkins! (1936), while The Unexpected Adventure (1935), Bulldog Sheila, or, The Gang (1936), Alice and James Discover Their Country
(1941), and Adventures at Littleacres
(1947) appear to be for children.
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HIGSON, KIT
(KITTY) (1 Jan 1887 – 16 Mar 1962)
1920s – 1950s
Author of more
than two dozen works of fiction, including novels and children's books.
Titles include The Law Allows
(1928), The Dull House (1934), Good Grief (1940), Courtesy Curtains (1942), Setting Off (1944), Small Potatoes (1948), Riding Light (1950), and Evil Communications (1952). Her final
title for children, Cop Shooter
(1958), is not as disturbing as it sounds—it's about a dog named Cop, owned
by one Simon Shooter.
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Hill, Anne
see MUSKETT, NETTA
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HILL, CECILIA [ALBERTHA] (1868 - ?1933)
1910s – 1920s
Travel writer and author of five novels—The
Citadel (1917), Wings Triumphant
(1918), Stone Walls (1919), Can These Things Be? (1923), and Sweet Enemy (1924)—about which
contemporary reviews were remarkably vague, citing "feminine charm"
and "interesting and natural characters," but The Citadel appears to deal with "the domestic fortunes of a
schoolmistress in England", though it ends with a vivid description of
the fall of Dinant in Belgium in World War I. Some reviews mention that Hill
was herself a schoolteacher at Wentworth Hall in London, which makes her the
Cecilia Albertha Hill b. 1868, who is teaching there on the 1911 census. The
1933 death record is plausible but not certain.
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HILL, DIANA [MARIAN] MURRAY (18 Oct
1910 – 16 Jul 1994)
1940s
Apparently a successful and acclaimed stage actress and author of a single
novel, Ladies May Now Leave Their
Machines (1944), about women factory workers in World War II. According
to Geoffrey G. Field, that work "combines documentary reportage of
factory work, fictional stories about other women workers, and detailed observations
about her own physical and psychological responses to industrial work,"
but "[t]he result is an inferior, fragmented novel—indeed scarcely a
novel at all—but a mine of interesting detail." She appears to have also
written one play, The Wonderful
Ingredient (1934).
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HILL, LORNA (21 Feb 1902 – 17 Aug
1991)
(née Leatham)
1940s – 1970s
Author of more than 30 children's titles and two novels for adults. She is
best known for her girls' ballet stories, beginning with A Dream of Sadler's Wells (1950) and continuing through more than
a dozen volumes, which portray a somewhat romanticized view of ballet
training. Hill's early books were written to entertain her own daughter, and
she had completed eight by the time she began to publish her "Marjorie"
series, beginning with Marjorie &
Co. (1948). The fourth title in that series, Northern Lights, was written as a Christmas present for her
daughter in 1941, but by the time the stories were being published, its
wartime setting was deemed not of interest to readers. It was finally
privately published in 1999 and then reprinted by Girls Gone By. She also
published her "Patience" series (1951-1955) and her "Dancing
Peel" series (1954-1962). Her most realistic books, about an
impoverished clergyman and his family, were The Vicarage Children (1961) and its sequels, More About Mandy (1963) and The Vicarage Children in Skye (1966).
Her two works for adults were The Other
Miss Perkin (1978), reprinted in recent years by Greyladies (I wrote
about it here), and Scent
of Rosemary (1978), both romantic in themes.
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HILL, MILDRED (1878 - ????)
1910s – 1920s
Poet, religious writer, and author of five children's titles, including His Little Bit o' Garden (1913), Michael's Quest (1920) (both referred
to as missionary stories), "Princess
Daisy-Flower" and the White Knight (1923), Bennie's Adventures (1923), and Mollie's Quilt (1927).
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HILL, O[LIVE]. P[RIMROSE]. (19 Apr 1904 – 10 Mar 1985)
(married name Readman)
1930s
Author of a single children's book, Dernham
Days (1934), set partly in a girls' school.
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HILL,
PAMELA (26 Nov 1920 – 16 Oct 2016)
(ake Sharon Fiske)
1950s – 2000s
Prolific author of more than 60 romance novels (and at least one crime novel)
over nearly five decades, most historical in setting and characterized by
their tough, courageous heroines. Titles include Flaming Janet (1954), Marjorie
of Scotland (1956), Here Lies
Margot (1957), Forget Not Ariadne
(1965), Whitton's Folly (1975), Daneclere (1978), Knock at a Star (1981) Still
Blooms the Rose (1984), The Loves
of Ginevra (1990), Aunt Lucy
(1993), Murder in Store (1996), and
Bailie's Wake (2000).
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HILL, PRUDENCE M[YFANWY]. (1921 – 14
Jun 2005)
(married name Maxfield, some records show middle
name as Mifanwy)
1940s
Author of a single children's title, Wind
and Weather Permitting (1954), described as a sailing holiday story. She
also published a biographical work about her father, To Know the Sky: The Life of Air Chief Marshall Sir Roderic Hill
(1962).
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HILL, TRISTRAM (20 Apr 1888 – 2 Aug 1971)
(pseudonym of Yseult Alice
Mary Lechmere Guppy, married names Low and Bridges, aka Yseult Bridges)
1930s
Later the author, under her own name, of several true crime stories about famous
murder cases, in the 1930s she published two pseudonymous novels—Questing Heart (1934) and Creole Enchantment (1936)—about which
little information is available. Her memoir was Child of the Tropics: Victorian Memoirs (1980).
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Hills,
Marguerite
see BRADSHAW, NINA
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HILTON, AGNES AUBREY (13 Aug 1878 – 9
Apr 1942)
1900s – 1930s
Author of more than a dozen religious and inspirational titles. Midsummer Madness (1920), The Hermit of Eskdale (1933), and The Promise of Life: A Romance of
Middleton, at least, appear to be novels. She also published An Imaginative Child: Studies in a Child's
View-Point (1913).
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Hinde, Susan
see CHITTY, SUSAN
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HINE, MURIEL (18 Jan 1873 – 16 Jun 1949)
(married name Coxon, aka
Muriel Hine Coxon, aka Mrs. Sydney Coxon, aka Nicholas Bevel)
1910s - 1950
Author of nearly three dozen romantic novels,
including April Panhasard (1913), The Hidden Valley (1919), The Ladder of Folly (1928), The Door Opens (1935), Man of the House (1940), The Second Wife (1943), and Liar's Progress (1950). The Best in Life (1918), later made
into the film Fifth Avenue Models
(1925), deals with a young woman who is half French and living in wartime
London.
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HINKSON, PAMELA [MARY] (19 Nov 1900 –
26 May 1982)
(aka Peter Deane)
1920s – 1950s
Daughter of Katharine TYNAN. Author of more than a dozen volumes of fiction
for adults and children. Her best known novel seems to be The Ladies' Road (1932), later
reprinted by Penguin. The Spectator
called it a "tale of war time and country life in Ireland," but
went on to comment about Hinkson's "irritating prejudice against the
comma." She published two early novels under her pseudonym—The Victors (1925) and Harvest (1926). Her other novels are The End of All Dreams (1923), Wind from the West (1930), set in
Brittany, The Deeply Rooted (1935),
Golden Rose (1944), set in India,
and The Lonely Bride (1951),
tracing one family in the years from 1890 to just after World War I. Early in
her career, Hinkson published eight girls' school stories, which Sims and
Clare call competent but conventional. These are The Girls of Redlands (1923), Patsey
at School (1925), St. Mary's
(1927), Schooldays at Meadowfield
(1930), Victory Plays the Game
(1933), Victory's Last Term (1936),
and two more with uncertain dates, Victory's
First Term (about 1932) and The New
Girl. She revised and completed her mother's final novel, Connor's Wood (1933), and published a
memoir, Irish Gold (1939), and a
travel book, Indian Harvest (1941).
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Hobson, Coralie
see SALT, SARAH
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Hockaby, Stephen
see MITCHELL, GLADYS
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HOCKING, [MONA NAOMI] ANNE [MESSER] (1890 – 17 Mar 1966)
(married names Dunlop
& Messer, aka Mona Dunlop, aka Mona Messer)
1910s, 1930s – 1960s
Author of more
than 50 novels, mostly mysteries. She hailed from a very writerly
family—father Joseph, uncle Silas, aunt Salome, and younger sisters Elizabeth
NISOT and Joan Carew SHILL were all published novelists as well. Anne Hocking
published her pseudonymous first novel (as Mona Dunlop), a non-mystery called
The Guarded Trust, in 1915, which
was dismissed by Dominion as
amateurish and sentimental. She didn't publish again until 1930, when A Castle For Sale began a string of
successful mysteries which appeared at regular intervals until her death. Her
series characters were Inspector Curtis and Sergeant Flyte. Other mysteries
include Cat's Paw (1933), Walk Into My Parlour (1934), Stranglehold (1936), What A Tangled Web (1937), The Wicked Flee (1940), Six Green Bottles (1943), The Vultures Gather (1945), At the Cedars (1949), Death Among the Tulips (1953), And No One Wept (1954), Relative Murder (1957), Poisoned Chalice (1959), The Thin Spun Life (1960), and He Had To Die (1962). In the 1930s,
she also published nearly a dozen mainstream novels using her Mona Messer
pseudonym. These include Eternal Compromise (1932), Playing
Providence (1934), Cuckoo’s Brood (1935), Marriage is
Like That (1938), and The Gift of a Daughter (1940).
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HODDER, MURIEL [WINIFRED SYLVESTER]
(16 Jun 1897 – 12 Jul 1972)
(married name Hughes)
1920s
Author of a single children's title, Pax,
the Adventurous Horse (1928).
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Hodges, Barbara
see CAMBRIDGE, ELIZABETH
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HODGKIN, LUCY VIOLET (19 Mar 1869 – 6
Apr 1954)
(married name Holdsworth, aka L. V. Holdsworth)
1920s, 1960s
Primarily the author of Quaker-related non-fiction and biography, Hodgkin
also wrote a children's title, The
Larks' Nest (1920), and short stories, collected after her death into Fierce Feathers and Other Stories
(1965). Seas of the Moon (1946) is
her memoir.
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HODGKINSON, FLORENCE (20 Dec 1855 – 18 Aug 1934)
(married name Ryland)
1870s –
1930s(?)
Prolific and popular author of novels and periodical fiction described as
"heart-warming moral tales". It's difficult to trace the full
extent of her periodical work, but in regard to her book publications, Little Means and Large Hearts appeared
in 1876 when she was just into her twenties, and Folly of Youth appeared in 1935. Other known titles include For Love Only (1908), The Convent Belle (1914), His Fair Lady (1915), and Clear Shining After Rain (1927). She
married Richard Henry Ryland, who was rector of Ayot St. Peter 1912-1939.
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HODGSON, GERALDINE EMMA (1865 – 3 Dec 1937)
1890s – 1910s
Biographer and author of non-fiction on topics ranging from Christian saints
and histories of education to a teacher's guide to Montaigne. She also published
at least four novels—In the Wilderness
of This World (1899), A Tragedy of
Errors (1900), Antony Delaval, LLD
(1900), and The Subtle Thing That's
Spirit (1902). One later work, Across
the Forest and Far Away (1911), appears to be children's fiction and thus
qualifies her for this list.
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HODGSON, ROSE MARIE (13 Aug 1910 – 11 Jan 1969)
(married name Foottit)
1930s
Poet and author
of one novel, Rosy-Fingered Dawn
(1934), described by Anna Bogen as an "experimental university
novel." Her poems are published in Patrixbourne:
Five Country Poems (1958) and Last
Poems (1969).
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HOGARTH, MARJORIE [MACQUEEN] (10 Mar 1895 - 19 Feb 1962)
1930s
Author of three
novels—Marriage for Two (1938), The Eyes of a Fool (1939), and The Intruder (1940)—about which little
information is available.
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HOLDEN, [BEATRICE] INEZ [LISETTE] (21 Nov 1906 – 30 May 1974)
1920s – 1950s
Journalist and
author of eight novels and two story
collections, including Night Shift
(1941), set in a wartime aircraft factory, which Jenny Hartley described as
"narrative by snapshot, setting up and willfully shattering the
expectations of fiction." There's
No Story There (1944) is a rather bleaker but quite interesting tale set
in a vast ordnance factory, where a snowstorm strands workers for a night, and
her story collection, To the Boating
(1945), likewise includes some vivid portrayals of wartime life. Her other
novels are Sweet Charlatan (1929), Born Old, Die Young (1932), Friend of the Family (1933), It Was Different at the Time (1943), The Owner (1952), and The Adults (1956). Her other story
collection is Death in High Society and
Other Stories (1933). Among Holden's close friends were H. G. Wells and
George Orwell. In his memoir, Anthony Powell referred to her as "a
torrential talker, an accomplished mimic … excellent company."
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HOLDER, MARY [ADELAIDE] (22 Jan 1895 – 26 Jul 1980)
(married name Bligh)
1930s
Stage actress with the Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespearean
Company and author of six novels—The
Dusky Highway (1932), The Strange
Tale of Eastermain (1933), Radiant
Interlude (1933), Rich Earth
(1934), To-day Is Ours (1935), and Moonlight in Winter (1937).
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HOLDSWORTH, ANNIE E. (25 Apr 1860 – 10 Jul 1917)
(pseudonym of Eliza Ann
Holdsworth, married name Lee-Hamilton, aka Max Beresford)
1890s – 1910s
Born in Jamaica
to British parents and raised in Britain, Holdsworth published fourteen
volumes of fiction, including A Garden
of Spinsters (1904), a story collection which OCEF compares to the work of American author Sarah Orne Jewett. Her other works are Miss Grahame's Memorial and Other Stories (1893), Joanna Traill, Spinster (1894), The Years That the Locust Hath Eaten
(1895), Spindles and Oars, or, Chronicles of Skyrie (1896), a series
of sketches set in a Scottish fishing village, The Gods Arrive (1897), The
Valley of the Great Shadow (1900), Great
Lowlands (1901), A New Paolo and
Francesca (1904), The Iron Gates
(1906), Lady Letty Brandon (1909), The Little Company of Ruth (1910), Dame Verona of the Angels (1912), and The Book of Anna (1913).
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HOLDSWORTH, ETHEL CARNIE (1 Jan 1886 – 28 Dec 1962)
(aka Ethel Carnie, aka
Ethel Holdsworth)
1910s – 1920s
Editor and
activist as well as novelist and poet. Called by ODNB the first working class British woman writer, Holdsworth
began working in a mill at the age of eleven and later described the
experience as slavery. She published three volumes of poetry and eleven works
of fiction, including a story collection, The
Lamp Girls and Other Stories (1913), and ten novels—Miss Nobody (1913), Helen
of Four Gates (1917), The Taming of
Nan (1919), The House that Jill
Built (1920), The Marriage of
Elizabeth (1920), General Belinda
(1924), This Slavery (1925), The Quest of the Golden Garter (1927),
Eagles' Crag (1928), and Barbara Dennison (1929). Helen of Four Gates was filmed in
1920. There's a chapter on Holdsworth in Rediscovering
Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers, 1889-1939 (1993), edited by
Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai.
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Holdsworth, L. V.
see HODGKIN, LUCY VIOLET
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Holgar, Paxton
see BOYD, MARY STUART
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Holland, Ena
see HOLLAND, RUTH
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Holland, Hester
see GORST, HESTER
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HOLLAND, RUTH (29 Oct 1898 – 26 Nov 1963)
(pseudonym of Edith
Holland, married name Jones, aka Ena Holland)
1920s – 1930s, 1950s
Sister-in-law of J. B. Priestley and author of six novels—The Undercurrent (1926, as Ena
Holland), Country Tune (1931), The Lost Generation (1932), Time and the Singletons (1933), Storm and Dream (1936), and One Crown with a Sun (1952).
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HOLLANDER, [AUGUSTA EDNA] GWENDA (7
Apr 1907 – 9 Aug 1998)
(née Levy)
1950s
Author of three novels—Lucia
(1950), The Stubborn Field (1952),
and One of Three (1953)—which
contemporary reviews suggest may contain a fair amount of melodrama. For
example, The Stubborn Field is
about a tormented artist who comes to a tragic end.
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HOLLINGSWORTH, ROSALIND [ANTOINETTE] (23 Mar 1887 – 26 Jan 1955)
(née Mitchelson, later
records show "Mercedes" as additional middle name)
1930s
Author of a single novel, Neither Gold
Nor Silver (1934).
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HOLLIS, GERTRUDE (1845 - 1943)
1890s – 1930s
Prolific author of religious non-fiction and novels, some of them historical
in subject. Titles include A Slave of
the Saracen (1904), Between Two
Crusades: A Tale of A.D. 1187 (1908), Jem
Forster's Revenge (1913), The
Blessed Bands (1919), and Aunt
Clive's Excursions (1928).
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HOLME, [EDITH] CONSTANCE (7 Oct 1880 – 17 Jun 1955)
(married name Punchard)
1900s – 1930s, 1950s
Influenced by
writers such as Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad, Holme was a successful
"regional" writer whose works mainly focused on rural Westmorland, where
she was born and spent most of her life. Widely acclaimed in her lifetime
(her early works appeared as Oxford World's Classics in the 1930s), Holme
wrote a dozen novels and one story collection as well as several plays. Her
most acclaimed novels include The
Lonely Plough (1914), The Old Road
from Spain (1916), Beautiful End
(1918), The Splendid Fairing (1919)
(which won the prestigious Femina Vie Heureuse prize later won by the likes
of Mary Webb and Virginia Woolf), The
Trumpet in the Dust (1921), The
Things which Belong (1925), and He-who-Came
(1930). Two early novels, Staggie
Three (1905) and Hugh of Hughsdale
(1906), were serialized. The remaining novels are Crump Folk Going Home (1913), The
Home Coming (1916), and The Jasper
Sea (1955), the last of which, written long after her other work and
featuring a village gravedigger protagonist, has, according to the Orlando
Project, never been published.
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Holmes, Alex
see SCOTT, AIMÉE BYNG
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Holt, Martha
see WILLANS, KATHARINE M[ARY].
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Holt, Victoria
see HIBBERT, ELEANOR
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HOLTBY, WINIFRED (23 Jun 1898 – 29 Sept 1935)
1920s – 1930s
Journalist, poet, and author of eight volumes of fiction. Best known for
her epic of village government, South
Riding (1935), which was made into a film starring Ralph Richardson in
1937 and into a television miniseries in 2011. Her other novels are Anderby Wold (1923), The Crowded
Street (1924, reprinted by Persephone), The Land of Green Ginger (1927), Poor Caroline (1931), and Mandoa,
Mandoa! (1933). She published two story collections, Truth Is Not Sober and Other Stories (1934) and the posthumous Pavements at Anderby (1937), while a
much later collection, Remember!
Remember!: Selected Stories (1997) includes some additional uncollected
stories. She was a close friend of Vera BRITTAIN, though their early
friendship was rocky (see Brittain's portrayal of Holtby in her first novel, The Dark Tide). After her death,
Holtby's letters to Brittain were published as Letters to a Friend (1937), and in 1940 Brittain published Testament of Friendship: The Story of
Winifred Holtby.
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