![]() During the first World War Edith began writing fiction. They traveled widely however (her father was a shipowner), and so did young Edith. Though as far as I can tell she lived her whole life in England, her father was American and her mother Canadian. The author was born Edith Maude Henderson in 1880 in London. It is sometimes considered the first novel in the "Romance" category (Georgette Heyer's first novel appeared two years later) and it introduced perhaps the least savory of Romance tropes: the woman who needs to be raped to teach her a lesson, and who then falls for her rapist. ![]() because it is an astonishingly sexist novel. ![]() (Along with another 1921 film, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik established his reputation and persona.) It's also famous. Partly this is because it became a film starring perhaps the most famous romantic male lead of the silent period, Rudolf Valentino. The Sheik is still a somewhat famous and also somewhat notorious novel. ![]()
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