Pamela Hinkson (19 November 1900 – 26 May 1982) was an Irish writer. Hinkson was the daughter of

Katharine Tynan Katharine Tynan (23 January 1859 – 2 April 1931)Clarke, Frances (2013)"Hinkson (née Tynan), Katharine Tynan" in ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and p ...

and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919). She was widely published and her book, ''The Ladies' Road'' (1932), sold over 100,000 copies in the Penguin edition. Under the pseudonym of Peter Deane, Hinkson wrote ''The Victors'' (1925) and ''Harvest'' (1927) set during and after the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

. 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.

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# ''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)

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*Hugh Cecil, ''The Flower of Battle: British Fiction Writers of the First World War'' (Secker & Warburg, 1995) - Chapter 12 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hinkson, Pamela 1900 births 1982 deaths 20th-century British women writers 20th-century Irish women writers