Meriol Trevor (15 April 1919 – 12 January 2000) was a British Roman Catholic writer of children's books, historical novels and biographies. Her two-volume biography of Cardinal Newman won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1963.
Biography
Meriol Trevor was born in London and grew up in Kent and Cambridge.[1] She was educated at Perse Girls' School, Cambridge and St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she studied classics and philosophy.[2] After graduating from Oxford in 1942, she took several temporary jobs before going to Italy after the war to help with reconstruction.[1] After encountering Catholic culture in Italy, she became a Roman Catholic in 1950.[2]
Her children's books strongly reflect her Catholic faith, presenting themes of conflict and redemption often in mythic form. A number of her historical novels are set in Romano-Britain and early Christian Europe.[2] Her two-volume biography of Cardinal Newman, Newman: The Pillar of Cloud and Newman: Light in Winter, published in 1962, received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.[3]
From the 1960s, Trevor lived in Bath, Somerset.[2] In 1967 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[1]
References
- 1.[1.2][1.3]"Meriol Trevor". Bethlehem Books. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- 2.[2.2][2.3][2.4]Matthews, Caitlin (31 January 2000). "Meriol Trevor". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
- 3."Biography winners". The University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 23 June 2022.