Menie Muriel Dowie

        Menie Muriel Dowie was born a British writer who was born on 15 July 1867 at Liverpool, United Kingdom as the daughter of James Muir Dowie, a merchant, and Annie Dowie.

            

       Her first novel Gallia was published in 1895. But it caused some controversy regarding the depiction of sexual relationships in the novel and then Dowie was marked as one of the new women writers. She published two more novels, The Crook of the Bough (1898) which is a satirical story describing contemporary attitudes to women in Turkey, and Love and His mask (1901) about the Boer war

         

        Dowie married Henry Norman in 1891 and their son Henry Nigel St Valery Norman was born in 1897. Norman discovered his wife’s affair with Edward Arthur and thus he divorced her in 1903. Meanwhile Dowie settled down on a farm in England and became well-known cattle breeder. In 1928 she seperated from Fitzgerald and emigrated to the United States in 1941 because of the war in Britain. Menie Muriel Dowie died in Tucson, Arizona in 1945, aged 77.