P. M. Handover
Phyllis Margaret Handover, who published as P. M. Handover, was an English writer on typography.
Her obituary describes her thus: "She was a rather frail-looking woman, with a gentle, refined appearance and soft, low voice which imperfectly concealed an incisive, uncompromising intellect and an iron determination to go her own way."
Education
According to her obituary, Handover attended Brentwood High School and St Anne's College, Oxford, at that time called the Society of Oxford Home Students.Life and work
Early in her career, Handover tried her hand at fiction, prompting a publisher's reader to recommend she turn to factual writing. She then wrote historical biographies on Lady Arbella Stuart and Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury.Interested in further pursuing historical studies, she joined The Times as a research assistant to Stanley Morison, who recognized her ability and encouraged her to write. Working with Morison, she developed an interest in typography, writing a number of scholarly articles. She gave a series of lectures at St Bride Library, published in 1960 as Printing in London : from 1476 to modern times.