Miriam Alexander, later Mrs Harold Stokes, (born Sept. 1879) was a British-born author of historical novels with Irish settings.

She was born at Birkenhead

Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the west bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool...

 and educated at home, except for a short period at Alexandra College

Alexandra College

Alexandra College is a private, single-sex school located in Milltown, Dublin, Ireland. It serves girls from ages 4 to 19 as boarding or day pupils. The school is one of the most prestigious in Ireland and ranks highly in Leaving Certificate results tables...

, Dublin. She was much interested in the Gaelic League but later became alienated from it.

She made her literary debut with her novel The House of Lisronan, a story of the Williamite wars

Williamite war in Ireland

The Williamite War in Ireland—also called the Jacobite War in Ireland, the Williamite-Jacobite War in Ireland and in Irish as Cogadh an Dá Rí —was a conflict between Catholic King James II and Protestant King William of Orange over who would be King of England, Scotland and Ireland...

. The novel was awarded the 250-guinea Melrose Prize

Andrew Melrose Publisher

Andrew Melrose was a British publisher. Although he was noted for publishing theological works, he was also active in promoting new fiction, and offered a substantial cash prize for the best first novel submitted to his firm....

for 1911. Six editions were sold in less than two months. Her other novels include The Port of Dreams (1912), The Ripple (1913, Miss O'Corra, M.F.H. (1915), and The Green Altar (1924).