Edith Maude Hull
1880-1947. British novelist, best known for her romantic novel The Sheik (1919).
Career
Edith Maude Hall was the pseudonym of Edith Maude Winstanley née Henderson. She was born on 16 August 1880 in Hampstead, London. While her husband was fighting in the Great War, she began to write "desert romances". This genre was actually created by E. M. Hull herself.
One of her first novels was The Sheik which was first published in 1919 and became a bestseller in 1921. It even was placed on the Publisher's Weekly's top ten list in the years 1921 and 1922 [source??]. The book itself was made into a film by George Melford in 1921 with Rudolph Valentino as the sheik. Valentino was seen as the greatest lover of the silent screen. [leaving out the quotation marks and not giving the source is considered a crime].
Hull continued writing until the 30s and had another success with the book Sons of the Sheik (1925), which was also made into a film with Rudolph Valentino.
Hull died at the age of 66 on 11 February 1947 in Hazlewood, Derbyshire.
Sources
- "AIM25 Collection Description." AIM25 Archive. <http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=10583&inst_id=65&nv1=search&nv2=>.
- "Edith Maude Hull - Author Profile." Public Bookshelf. <http://www.publicbookshelf.com/author/Edith-Maude-Hull>.
- "E.M. Hull." Wikipedia. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Maude_Hull>. [ochnö]