The archive consists of birth and marriage certificates (1876-1880); film, theatre and publishers' contracts for EM Hull's works (1919-1956); one photograph thought to be EM Hull in her wedding dress (one of the only known photographs of the author) (c.1900); one copy of Sir Walter Scott's Poetical Works (1865) that belonged to EM Hull's father James Henderson; an article by Cecil Hull 'Six Weeks in Southern Algeria' (1930); Edith Maud Hull's suitcase; the following eight books by Edith Maud Hull inscribed to her daughter Cecil Winstanley Hull:
*E M Hull, The Sheik, 1921, Small Maynard and Co
*E M Hull, The Shadow of the East, 1921, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson
*E M Hull, The Desert Healer, 1923, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson
*E M Hull, Camping in the Sahara, 1926, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson
*E M Hull, The Sons of the Sheik, 1926, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson
*E M Hull, The Lion Tamer, 1928, Eveleigh Nash and Grayson
*E M Hull, The Captive of the Saharah, 1931, Dodd, Mead and Co
*E M Hull, The Forest of Terrible Things, 1939, Hutchinson and Company
These were popularly known as 'Desert Romances' and in 2005 were still classed by many booksellers as 'Erotic Fiction'. The archive provides an insight into the contractual and financial affairs of a popular female novelist of the early 20th century.
Hull , Edith Maud , 1880-1947 , nee Henderson , writer