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).
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).[4]
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.