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She was born Hilda Winifred Maizels in Whitechapel, London in 1896. [1] Her father, Joseph Maizels, was a Jewish jeweller and silversmith who had immigrated to England from Kalisz, Poland; [2] he married her mother, Deborah Lipman, in London in 1893. [3] Lewis originally worked as a teacher, but started writing when she moved to Nottingham in ...
The Gentle Falcon is a historical novel for young readers by Hilda Lewis, based on the story of King Richard II and his child bride, Isabella, written in first person from the point of view of a close companion of the Queen. [1] [2] It was published by Oxford University Press in 1952 and adapted as a television series by the BBC in 1954. [3]
It was directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the novel The Day Is Ours by Hilda Lewis. It stars Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins and Terence Morgan, and features the first film appearance by Jane Asher. In the US the film was released as The Story of Mandy, [1] and later was sold to television as Crash of Silence. [2]
Hilda May Gordon (1874–1972) – British watercolourist; Frank O. Salisbury (1874–1962) – English painter known for his portraits and historical and mythological works; Dorothea Sharp (1874–1955) – British landscape painter; Eleanor Best (1875–1957) – portrait and figure painter; Evelyn Cheston (1875–1929) – English landscape ...
Hilda Elise (Biddy) Tuxworth MBE (25 June 1908 – 19 January 1994) was a nurse, community worker and historian who spent much of her life living in the Northern Territory of Australia. She was the mother of politician Ian Tuxworth .
Hilda Worthington Smith (June 19, 1888 – March 3, 1984) was an American labor educator, social worker, and poet. She is best known for her roles as first Director of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry [1] and as a co-founder of the Affiliated Schools for Workers (later known as the American Labor Education Service), [2] although she also had a long career in government ...
The Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in a Feature Production (or Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Writing in an Animated Feature Production) is an Annie Award awarded annually, except in 1997, to the best animated feature film and introduced in 1996.
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. [3] She was married to the writer Arthur Nickson (1902–1974).