Hilda Pressley was born on 18 November 1912 in Maltby, England, UK. Hilda married with the Western novelist Arthur (Thomas) Nickson (1902-1974, aka Arthur Hodson, Roy Peters, John Saunders, and Matt Winstan). She published her first romance novels at Herbert Jenkins at 1950s, before start to work to Mills & Boon under her married name and as Hilda Pressley, 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 triangles of love in her plots, and she also setting her novels in Italy or Spain.

Hilda Nickson served as Vice-President for the Romantic Novelists' Association. She passed away in 1977.