Hilda Lewis

Hilda Lewis (born Hilda Winifred Maizels) was a British novelist who trained as a teacher before turning to fiction after moving to Nottingham in the 1920s. She is remembered chiefly for historical novels about English history, including I Am Mary Tudor (1972), and for The Gentle Falcon, later adapted for television. Younger readers knew her for The Ship That Flew (1939), a time-travel fantasy rooted in Norse mythology that stayed in print for decades. Her 1946 novel The Day Is Ours provided the basis for the film Mandy, inspired by the work of her husband, a University of Nottingham specialist in deaf education. The Witch and the Priest (1956), a horror novel about the Lincolnshire witch trials, was later reissued in Dennis Wheatley's Library of the Occult. Lewis died in 1974.