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H. F. M. Prescott is best known for The Man on a Donkey, a historical novel published in 1952 by Eyre and Spottiswoode. Written in the form of a chronicle, the book tells the story of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a popular uprising against Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. The book has remained in print continuously, with a new edition published in December 2016 by Apollo, London.
H. F. M. Prescott won the James Tait Black Prize in 1941 for her biography of Mary I of England, originally titled Spanish Tudor. The book was later re-issued as Mary Tudor and is named by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as the best biography of the monarch.
Prescott was educated at Wallasey High School, then read Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, where she received her first M.A. She later earned a second M.A. at Manchester University under the direction of Thomas Frederick Tout, professor of Medieval and Modern History.
Prescott was appointed tutor at St Mary's College, University of Durham in 1943, then served as Vice-Principal from 1944 to 1948. In 1958 she was elected Jubilee Research Fellow at Royal Holloway College in the University of London, where she worked on Thomas Wolsey.
Yes. Her 1938 thriller Dead and Not Buried was adapted for CBS's Climax! television series in 1954 under the title Bury Me Later.
H. F. M. Prescott died on the 5th of May 1972. She lived for many years in the small Oxfordshire town of Charlbury.