HFM Prescott Author

H.F.M. Prescott (1896-1972) is best known for her historical novel The Man on a Donkey and her biography of Mary Tudor which won the James Tait Black Prize in 1941. The daughter of a clergyman, she read Modern History at Oxford and later received MA degrees there and at Manchester. Her wide-ranging interests included travel and a deep love of the English countryside that lasted all her life.