Muriel Jaeger, 1892–1969, was a British author who wrote early novels of science fiction as well as plays and non-fiction, she was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire and won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford in 1912 graduating in 1916.
At Oxford, Jaeger belonged to a society of women writers that included Winifred Holtby and her close friend Dorothy L. Sayers, her nickname in college was James, or Jim, or even Jimmy.