Meriol Trevor
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Meriol Trevor | |
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| Born | 15 April 1919 |
| Died | 12 January 2000 (aged 80) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Period | 1949–2001 |
| Genre | Biography, children's literature |
| Notable works | Newman: The Pillar of Cloud, Newman: Light in Winter |
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]
