Pamela Hinkson Explained
Pamela Hinkson (19 November 1900 – 26 May 1982) was an Irish writer.
Hinkson was the daughter of Katharine Tynan and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919). She was widely published[1] and her book, The Ladies' Road (1932), sold over 100,000 copies in the Penguin edition.[2]
Under the pseudonym of Peter Deane, Hinkson wrote The Victors (1925) and Harvest (1927) set during and after the First World War.[3] The identity of 'Peter Deane' was revealed by the writer Hugh Cecil following research into his 1995 book The Flower of Battle: British Fiction Writers of the First World War.
Her last publication was Golden rose in 1944.
She died on 26 May 1982 aged 81.[4]
Bibliography
- The End of all Dreams. 1923
- The Girls of Redlands (1923)
- Patsey at School (1925)
- St. Mary's (1927)
- Schooldays at Meadowfield (1930)
- Wind from the West (1930)
- The Ladies' Road (1932)
- Victory Plays the Game (1933)
- Connor's Wood (revised and completed by Pamela Hinkson) (1933)
- The Deeply Rooted (1935)
- The Light of Ireland (1935)
- Victory's Last Term (1936)
- Seventy Years Young (Memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall told to Pamela Hinkson) (1937)
- Irish Gold (1939)
- Indian Harvest (1941)
- Golden Rose (1944)
References
- Book: Sailer, Susan Shaw . Representing Ireland: Gender, Class, Nationality . 978-0-8130-1543-9 . 1997 . 151 . University Press of Florida.
- Web site: Archives hub.
- Book: Ouditt, Sharon . Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography . 978-0-415-04752-4 . 2000 . . 20.
- Book: van de Kamp, Peter G. W. . https://books.google.com/books?id=spe-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA181 . Some Notes on the Literary Estate of Pamela Hinkson . Yeats Annual No. 4 . Gould . Warwick . Warwick Gould . 1986 . The Macmillan Press Ltd . 181 . 978-1-349-06838-8 . 13 September 2021.
Sources
- Goodreads
- Hugh Cecil, The Flower of Battle: British Fiction Writers of the First World War (Secker & Warburg, 1995) - Chapter 12