Meriol Trevor

Meriol Trevor was born in London and grew up in Kent and Cambridge.{{Cite web |url=https://bethlehembooks.com/person/meriol-trevor/ |title=Meriol Trevor |website=Bethlehem Books |access-date=23 June 2022}} She was educated at Perse Girls' School, Cambridge and St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she studied classics and philosophy.{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jan/31/booksforchildrenandteenagers.obituaries| first=Caitlin|last=Matthews |title=Meriol Trevor |website=The Guardian |date=31 Jan 2000 |access-date=23 June 2022}} After graduating from Oxford in 1942, she took several temporary jobs before going to Italy after the war to help with reconstruction. After encountering Catholic culture in Italy, she became a Roman Catholic in 1950.

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. 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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/events/james-tait-black/winners/biography |title=Biography winners |website=The University of Edinburgh |access-date=23 June 2022}}

From the 1960s, Trevor lived in Bath, Somerset. In 1967 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

• The Last of Britain (1956)
• The New People (1957)
• A Narrow Place (1958)
• Shadows and Images (1960)
• The City and the World (1970)
• The Holy Images (1971)
• The Two Kingdoms (1973)
• The Fugitives (1973) (Luxembourg series 1)
• The Marked Man (1974) (Luxembourg series 2)
• The Enemy at Home (1974) (Luxembourg series 3)
• The Forgotten Country (1975) (Luxembourg series 4)
• The Treacherous Paths (1976) (Luxembourg series 5)
• The Fortunate Marriage (1976) (Warstowe Series 1)
• The Civil Prisoners (1977) (Warstowe Series 2)
• The Fortunes of Peace (1978) (Luxembourg series 6)
• The Wanton Fires(1979) (Warstowe Series 3)
• The Sun with a Face (1982) (Warstowe Series 4)
• The Golden Palaces (1986)

• The Forest and the Kingdom (1949) (World Dionysius Novels 1)
• Hunt the King, Hide the Fox (1950) (World Dionysius Novels 2)
• The Fires and the Stars (1951) (World Dionysius Novels 3)
• Sun Slower, Sun Faster (1955)
• The Treasure Hunt (1957)
• Merlin's Ring (1957)
• The Other Side of the Moon (1957)
• The Caravan War (1958)
• The Sparrow Child (1958)
• Four Odd Ones (1958)
• William's Wild Day Out (1963)
• The Rose Round (1963)
• The Midsummer Maze (1964)
• Lights in a Dark Town (1964)
• The King of the Castle (1966)
• The Crystal Snowstorm (1997) (Letzenstein Chronicles Book 1)
• Following the Phoenix (1998) (Letzenstein Chronicles Book 2)
• Angel and Dragon (1999) (Letzenstein Chronicles Book 3)
• The Rose and Crown (1999) (Letzenstein Chronicles Book 4)

• Midsummer, Midwinter and Other Poems (1957)

• Newman: The Pillar of the Cloud (1962)
• Newman: Light in Winter (1962)
• Newman Today (1963) (23-page Catholic Truth Society pamphlet)
• Newman: A Portrait Restored. An Ecumenical Revaluation (with John Coulson and A.M. Allchin) (1965)
• Apostle of Rome: A Life of St Philip Neri, 1515-1595 (1966)
• Pope John (1967); new edition Pope John: Blessed John XXIII (2000)
• Prophets and Guardians: Renewal and Tradition in the Church (1969)
• The Arnolds: Thomas Arnold and His Family (1973)
• Newman's Journey (1974)
• The Shadow of a Crown: The Life Story of James II of England and VII of Scotland (1988)
• John Henry Newman: Apostle to the Doubtful (with Leonie Caldecott) (2001)

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• [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/intrvws/trevor.htm 1989 Interview with Meriol Trevor]
• [https://bethlehembooks.com/person/meriol-trevor/ Meriol Trevor at Bethlehem Books]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20080513214551/http://www.secondspring.co.uk/spring/about.htm 5th Meriol Trevor Lecture]
• [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/jan/31/booksforchildrenandteenagers.obituaries Obituary]—in The Guardian, 31 Jan. 2000.
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