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Hilda Nickson
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Hilda Pressley was born on 1912 in Maltby, England, UK. Hilda married with the Western novelist Arthur (Thomas) Nickson.
She used to sign her novels her married name, Hilda Nickson, her maiden name, Hilda Pressley, and the pseudonym Hilary Preston. She published her first novels at Herbert Jenkins at 1950s, before start to work to Mills & Boon, most of her novels were reedited by Harlequin, in some cases by diferents titles. She focused her first novels on the popular Doctor-Nurse romances, and are frecuently found love triangles in her plots.
Hilda Pressley Nickson served as Vice-President for the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Full Series List in Order
Love at Hospital
1 - Junior Theatre Sister // Operation Love (Jan-1962)2 - Surgeons in Love // Something Personal (1962)
Book List in Order: 39 titles
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Love is the Anchor // A Kiss for Elaine
- Jan-1957
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Elaine Finchley fell in love with Tony Richards. Carefree, gay Tony, who, while travelling through Europe forgot their wedding day -- forgot their love -- and married an Italian girl. It took a long time to heal her wounds and it was David who helped...
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The Tender Heart // Tender Nurse
- Jan-1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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Few women could resist the handsome good looks and polished charm of Martin Graham, the brilliant surgeon. But Nurse Andrea Grey was one of the few; she had only dislike for this man who seemed to take pleasure in humiliating her. How different he wa...
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Her Foolish Heart // Nurse Foster's Foolish Heart
- Jan-1958
- / Contemporary Romance
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Nurse Foster began admiring him, grew to love him and ended by despising him. It was as simple as that. This strange volte-face took place when, as theatre nurse, she first saw him work as a surgeon. A more demanding, over-bearing man she had yet to ...
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He Whom I Love // Doctor Phillip
- Jan-1959
- / Contemporary Romance
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Eleanor and Dr. Phillip Moreton worked well together. Twice he proposed, twice she refused. When she became engaged to Hugh Stevens, something blocked her happiness. Could it be her unacknowleged love for Phillip?...
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Love the Physician
- 1960
- / Contemporary Romance
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Doctor Laura Travers had always mothered and taken charge of her young sister, and when an unfortunate episode threatened to ruin Jacqueline's life she was only too willing to give up her job in London and help her sister to make a fresh start. So th...
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Junior Theatre Sister // Operation Love
- Jan-1962
- / Contemporary Romance
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Lesley's good luck quickly turned bad. Lesley Heswell was thrilled to be dating the hospital's most eligible surgeon, Ivor Bentley, but as soon as they became engaged, everything began to go wrong. First, Ivor became impossibly jealous; then Lesle...
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Quayside Hospital
- Jan-1962
- / Contemporary Romance
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After the hectic life in a large London hospital, Jennifer Martin expected her work in a quiet little Norfolk town to be humdrum. Perhaps it would have been if Guy Kendall, brother of her senior surgeon, hadn't arrived as a patient. For Jennifer foun...
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For Love of a Surgeon
- Jan-1962
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Lisa's engagement to David Webster was broken off, Adrian Howard began to take her out. Torn between the two, she did not know which to choose - the gentler younger man, or the older consultant who had been hurt and suffered in the same way a...
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Surgeons in Love // Something Personal
- 1962
- / Contemporary Romance
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Armed with the belief that an operating room should be a place of harmony and teamwork, Madeline Keys worked hard to this end. But with the inexplicable enmity of the surgery nurse and her own hopeless love for her fellow surgeon, Francis Meyland, th...
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Sister of Nightingale // Surgeon's Return
- Jan-1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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There is nothing so dead as a dead love, it is said, but Joanne Hampton was to doubt the truth of those words when Robin Crowther, after an absence of three years, came back as a consultant, she found his continual presence very disturbing to her har...
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The World of Nurse Mitchell
- May-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Nurses Vanessa Mitchell and Sandra Roberts became friendly with Doctors Philip Cartwright and David Winsford, it seemed natural to make up a foursome. But things became complicated when Vanessa fell in love with Philip and he in his turn fell in...
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Take My Hand // Surgeon at Witteringham
- Jan-1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sister Netta Rowlands, with her pretty face and bubbly personality, could have had her pick of escorts from the staff at Witteringham General. So it was ironic that the one man who really interested her, the surgeon Roger Henderson, hardly seemed to ...
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Sister at Butlin's
- 1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sandra, fresh from the status and dignity of life as a sister in "one of the famous London hospitals," takes a post as sister-in-charge of the first aid post at a Butlin's holiday camp for the full spring and summer holiday season....
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Season of Mists // Nurse Adele
- Jan-1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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Staff Nurse Adele Palmer had always brushed aside Sister Margaret Bowen's bitter comments on her romance with Norman Wayne as the jealousy of a frustrated woman -- until it began to dawn on her that Margaret might be right after all... ...
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Until You Came
- 1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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Many things puzzled Margaret at the small hospital--not least, the unspoken rivalry of two doctors......
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Gather Then the Rose
- Jan-1968
- / Contemporary Romance
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After her father's death, Michele was determined to keep the family nursery business going. She soon found, however, that she could not manage without the help of Hugh Daly-which turned out to be a mixed blessing... ...
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A Friend of the Family
- Jun-1968
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Netta had known Julian for years, looking on him as a kind of honorary older brother, and it was only recently that she had discovered that she loved him deeply. But what was the use of that, when he not only clearly saw her as just a "kid sister", b...
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This Desirable Residence
- Jan-1969
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Competition was fierce -- for money and love. Sara found herself in a man's world when she set up her own business as a real-estate agent. There was no lack of men who wanted to help her out, however. Ian Mannering, an experienced agent, gave her a f...
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Moonlight on the Water
- Aug-1969
- / Contemporary Romance
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Andrea's friends all thought she was mad to buy a cottage on the Norfolk Broads and give up her London life. It took her some time discover whether they were right or not -- but there was no doubt about the ultimate verdict....
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To My Dear Niece
- Oct-1970
- / Contemporary Romance
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Great-Aunt Maud had generously left Vanessa her big country house, Puck's Hill -- but it looked like being nothing but a white elephant to Vanessa if it prevented her finding happiness with the man she loved....
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On a May Morning
- Dec-1970
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Kate's first encounter with the new owner of the Grange was stormy - her boat collided with his dinghy on the Norfolk Broads. Lee Thornton, she decided, was a most unpleasant, overbearing man, and she would never have anything to do with him again. "...
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The Sweet Spring
- Aug-1972
- / Contemporary Romance
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All her life Melanie had worked with her father, Richard Lawrence, in the family firm of R. Lawrence & Son. There was no son, and sometimes Melanie wondered wryly why one never saw the sign and Daughter. But that was before she met Drew !...
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Lord of the Forest
- May-1973
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Linda didn't have any doubts about her feelings for Brett Faulkner -- but he was the local lord of the Manor, while she was just a very ordinary girl. Why should he be interested in her? Or was Linda being snobbish and out-of-date about it all?...
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To Have and to Hold
- Jan-1974
- / Romance
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Howard Selby, Susan thought, was arrogant, interfering and very, very attractive....
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Now With His Love
- Aug-1977
- / Romance
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Juliet hoped that Switzerland would help her to get over her broken engagement, but all that happened was that she fell in love with Richard Thornton, who was not interested in her....
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Voyage of Discovery
- Jan-1987
- / Contemporary Romance
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He spoiled her holiday Instead of enjoying the luxurious cruise Gail was miserable and confused--thanks to Stuart Landon. From the captain's dining table to onshore excursions around the fascinating Canary Islands, her relationship with Stu...
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So Tempting an Offer
- Jun-1988
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It was the opportunity of a lifetime. Lucille could hardly believe it, double her present salary and a chance to travel to the magical cities of Europe, staying at luxury hotels. All expenses paid! She wanted the job, but not the employer who came w...
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