Muriel Stuart (1889–1967) was a British poet active in London literary circles in the early twentieth century. Her poetry is delicate and understated, capturing with restrained strokes the subtle shades of emotion and everyday experience, and she exerted a certain influence in the poetic world of her time. Her representative work is the collection Poems. Public information about her life is limited: little is known about her early education, her mentors, or the specifics of her literary activities, and existing accounts focus mainly on her writing itself. Judging from the works that survive, her poems tend toward inner feeling and reflections on life, with concise language and an emotional expressiveness that is restrained yet forceful; for this reason her work is often classified under inspirational and personal growth. Though her output was small and records of her life are brief, she is still regarded as a notable woman poet of the early twentieth-century British literary scene, and her subtle, inward style offers a distinctive perspective on the poetry of that era.
