Brown's Town, St. Ann, Jamaica, founded by Canon James Philip Hall, Rector of St. Mark's Anglican Church in Brown's Town 1906-07. St. Hilda's College in Buenos Aires, Argentina was founded in 1912. There are two schools situated in Australia in recognition of St. Hilda. They are both 'St. Hilda's Anglican School for Girls' which is an independent, girls' school in Southport, Queensland and Mosman Park, Western Australia. On the upper west side of Manhattan in New York City is St Hilda's and St Hugh's School, an independent Episcopal day school that opened its doors in 1950. The school is coeducational and includes toddlers to grade eight. St Hilda is honoured in Singapore in the St. Hilda's primary and secondary schools. During the British Empire in India, Anglican missionaries have built "St Hilda Boarding School" at Miri-Maka. St Hilda's School, Ootacamund, southern India was established by Church of England sisters in 1895. Fiction Hilda appears as a main character in the 1994 novel Absolution for Murder, the first book in Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma mysteries. Hilda appears as a main character in Melvyn Bragg's 1996 novel, Credo. The 2013 novel Hild by Nicola Griffith is based on the life of Hilda. Jill Dalladay's 2015 novel The Abbess of Whitby combines historical record and fiction to imagine Hilda's life before she became a nun. Maureen Duffy's play The Choice premiered at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2018. This monologue sees Hilda recount two episodes of her life that are recorded by Bede: the 'miracle' of the poet-cowherd Caedmon, and the role Hilda played in the transition from Irish to Roman Catholicism in the English church. Vibeke Vasbo's Danish novel Hildas sang (Gyldendal, 1991) was translated into English by Gaye Kynoch and published in 2018 as The Song of Hild by Sacristy Press. References Citations Sources Sister Hilary OHP; (2003). St. Hilda of Whitby, Order of the Holy Paraclete, St. Hilda's Priory, Sneaton Castle, Whitby YO21 3QN. Further reading Bede (1996) The Ecclesiastical History of the English Church and People, Oxford University Press, World classics series. Bradley, Ian (1999) Celtic Christianity, Edinburgh University Press. Cavill, Paul (1999) Anglo-Saxon Christianity: exploring the earliest roots of Christian spirituality in England, London: Collins, Fount paperback. Hume, Basil (1996) Footprints of the Northern Saints, London: Darton, Longman & Todd. Simpson, Ray (2014) Hilda of Whitby: A spirituality for now, BRF Warin, Anne (1989) Hilda, Lamp Press. External