One of my GR groups was reading Trade Wind and having an in-depth discussion about whether a relationship (spoiler for Trade Wind here) that begins with rape can really lead to lasting love. She died at age 66, on 11 February 1947 in Hazelwood, in the parish of Duffield, Derbyshire. In addition she wrote a travelogue 'Camping in the Sahara' (1926) that included photographs by her daughter Cecil. In 2005 these novels were still classed by some publishers as 'erotic fiction'! She also wrote a follow-up to 'The Sheik', 'The Sons of the Sheik' (1925) and she wrote six other novels of the 'desert romance' variety.

Sales further increased when Paramount released a film version with the same title in 1921 and this launched Rudolph Valentino into cinema immortality as the greatest lover of the silent screen. 'The Sheik' quickly sold over 1.2 million copies worldwide. 'The Sheik', her initial effort, was first published in England in 1919 and quickly became an international blockbuster, placing it among the top ten best sellers for both of the years 19 in the magazine 'Publishers Weekly'. She dabbled at writing fiction in the late 1910s while her husband was away serving in World War I. They had a daughter Cecil Winstanley Hull, who also wrote a book entitled 'Six Weeks in Algeria' (1930). 1869) in London and the couple moved to Derbyshire in the early 1900s. In 1899, she married Percy Winstanley Hull (b. 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.Īs a child she travelled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria, the setting of her novels.

The Sheik by E.M. Hull