The Desert Healer: 'So few people seem to be trained to make their limbs obey them''

Edith Maud Henderson was born on 16th August 1880 in Hampstead, England, the daughter of Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada and James Henderson, a Liverpool shipowner by way of New York City.

As a child she travelled widely with her parents, including Algeria with its vast expanses of desert, the future setting for much of her later works.

In 1899, Edith married Percy Winstanley Hull, then a civil engineer but later a prize-winning pig farmer. They moved to the Hull family estate in Derb...