author
Muriel Hine
1874–1949
A prolific British novelist, she wrote popular romantic fiction with a sharp interest in women’s choices, social pressures, and modern life. Her long career stretched from the early 1910s into the mid-20th century, and her books reached enough readers to inspire at least one silent-film adaptation.
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The Man with the Double Heart
by Muriel Hine
About the author
Born in Nottingham on 18 January 1874, Muriel Hine became a busy and successful British novelist, publishing under her own name and also as Mrs Sidney Coxon. Reliable reference sources describe her as the author of about thirty-five novels issued between 1910 and 1950, with titles including Half in Earnest and The Best in Life.
Her fiction is usually grouped with romantic and popular writing, but it often went beyond simple love stories. Accounts of her work note her interest in women’s lives and ambitions, and later reference works also point to her ventures into fantasy and speculative fiction, especially The Seven Lovers and Other Tales and The Island Forbidden to Man.
Hine died on 16 June 1949. Though she is less widely known today than some of her contemporaries, her novels still offer a window into early 20th-century ideas about love, independence, and the changing place of women in society.