The Ship that Flew was republished in the Oxford Children's Modern Classics series in 1998. Most of Lewis' works are out of print however, a number are available either in print or as e-books. Michael Lewis who was a specialist in the education of the deaf at the University of Nottingham. The novel in turn was inspired by the work of her husband Professor M. The 1946 novel The Day is Ours about a young deaf girl was the basis of the film Mandy. She also wrote a noted children's book, The Ship that Flew (1939) which concerns Norse mythology and time travel. Her young adult historical novel The Gentle Falcon, was adapted for television. Most of her works were historical novels, some of which, such as I Am Mary Tudor (1972), received critical attention. Lewis originally worked as a teacher, but started writing when she moved to Nottingham in the 1920s. Her father, Joseph Maizels, was a Jewish jeweler and silversmith who had immigrated to England from Kalisz, Poland he married her mother, Deborah Lipman, in London in 1893. She was born Hilda Winifred Maizels in Whitechapel, London in 1896. Hilda Winifred Lewis (nee Maizels, 1896–1974) was a British writer of historical and children's fiction.
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