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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]
Noted for listing a variety of international works, 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up features stories originally written in a multitude of languages, which includes Japanese, Slovak, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Russian and Dutch. [3]
He left his first wife in England and migrated to Australia as Robert Bedford with his partner, later second wife, Ethel Hilda Lewis. He settled at Kyancutta on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia . He served there as physician veterinary surgeon, radio station proprietor and post office operator.
Hilda, a three-year-old American girl, was photographed by Lewis Hine for a report on child labor as she picked sugar beets in Wisconsin in July, 1915. Her name ranked 104th when Hilda was born in 1912.
Lewis Arthur Smith (1869–1958), American architect; L. J. Smith (born 1980), American football player; Loren A. Smith (born 1944), judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims; Lovie Smith (born 1958), American football coach; Lot Smith (born 1830), American politician, soldier, and Mormon pioneer
John Florio (1553–1625), known in Italian as Giovanni Florio; linguist and lexicographer of Anglo-Italian origin; referred to himself as 'an Englishman in Italiano'; royal language tutor at the Court of James I; a friend with huge influence on William Shakespeare [citation needed]
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).