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E.M. Hull / Edith Maude Hull
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Edith Maude Henderson was born on 16 August 1880 in the Borough of Hampstead, London, England, UK, the daughter of Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada and James Henderson, a shipowner from Liverpool. As a child she traveled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria—the setting of her novels. In 1899, she married Percy Winstanley Hull (b. 1869) in London and the couple moved to Derbyshire in the early 1900s. They had a daughter Cecil Winstanley Hull, who also wrote a book Six Weeks in Algeria (1930).
She dabbled writing fiction in the late 1910s while her husband was away serving in World War I. The Sheik, her first effort, was first published in England in 1919 and quickly became an international blockbuster, placing among Publishers Weekly's top ten best sellers for both of the years 1921 and 1922. Hull's volume quickly sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. Sales further increased when Paramount released a film version of The Sheik in 1921, which launched Rudolph Valentino into cinema immortality as the greatest "lover" of the silent screen. She died at age 66, on 11 February 1947 in Hazelwood, in the parish of Duffield, Derbyshire.
Full Series List in Order
The Sheik Saga
1 - The Sheik (1919)2 - The Sons of the Sheik (1925)
Book List in Order: 11 titles
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The Shadow of the East
- 1921
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What folly! And lashing him with her tongue she renewed her fruitless efforts. But Craven scarcely heeded her. His eyes were fixed on the little white face on the pillow, and he was praying desperately that she might be spared to him, that his punish...
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The Desert Healer
- 1923
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The Desert Healer (1923) is a romance novel by English author E.M. Hull. Hull’s novel The Sheikh (1919) sold millions of copies following the release of a 1921 film of the same name. Part of a tradition of Orientalist fiction, The Desert Healer, al...
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The Sons of the Sheik
- 1925
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Continues the story begun in The Sheik with the next generation, the twin sons of Ahmed ben Hassan and Lady Diana Mayo....
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Camping in the Sahara
- 1926
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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The Sheik a Novel
- Aug-2017
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
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The Shadow of the East. by
- Jan-2018
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E. M. Hull (sometimes expanded as Edith M. Hull), was the pseudonym of Edith Maud Hull, nee Henderson (16 August 1880 - 11 February 1947), a British writer of romance novels. She is best known for The Sheik, which became an international best seller ...
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The Shiek
The Sheik is a 1919 novel by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century. It was the first of a series of novels she wrote with desert settings that set off a major revival of the desert romance genre of romantic fiction.[1] ...
