Edith Maude Hull

Edith Maude Hull, (1880-1947) is more commonly known as E. M. Hull the author of her novel The Sheik, published in 1919 which led to the film of the same name starring Rudolf Valentino. E.M.Hull was the pseudonym of Edith Maude Winstanley née Henderson. This novel is credited with starting the hugely popular "desert-romance" genre. Hull followed The Sheik with subsequent novels The Shadow of the East, The Desert Healer, and The Sons of the Sheik.

Edith was born in 1880 London, but lived, worked and died (in 1947) in Hazelwood, Derbyshire.

References

Source: Mao, Douglas and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds. Bad Modernisms. Durham: Duke University Press 2006.

External links

• Works by E. M. Hull at Project Gutenberg
• The Women's Library Archives, which contains " Books and papers relating to EM Hull"