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.
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]
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.
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]