Her most important works include The King’s Peace The King’s War and William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, 1533–1584, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 1944. She published her first history, The Thirty Years War (1938), before her thirtieth birthday, and in the years that followed wrote a succession of chronicles of seventeenth-century Europe that made her one of the most popular and best-known historians in Britain. After success at Oxford, Wedgwood rejected an academic career and took up writing instead. Her father, a direct descendant of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, was the chief general manager of the London and North Eastern Railway and her mother was a novelist and travel writer. Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997) was born into an innovative and intellectual English family.
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