Minnie Louise Haskins (12 May 1875 – 3 February 1957) was a British poet and an academic in the field of sociology, best known for being quoted by King George VI in his Royal Christmas Message of 1939.

Haskins was born at 2 Kingswood Hill, Oldland, South Gloucestershire, 6 miles (10 km) east of Bristol, and she grew up in the neighbouring village of Warmley.

In 1915, poor health led Haskins, now 40 years old, to return to England where she ran a munitions workers' hostel in Woolwich for six months.

This was followed by three years supervising the labour management department of a government-controlled munitions factory in Silvertown, West Ham, an industrial area of East London.

At the age of 43, Haskins came to the London School of Economics (LSE) to study for the Social Science Certificate under Agatha Harrison, who had been appointed in 1917 to the first British academic post devoted to industrial welfare.

During this time, Haskins wrote two novels Through Beds of Stone (1928) and A Few People (1932) and a further volume of poetry Smoking Flax (1942).

"[citation needed] The opening words of the poem "The Gate of the Year" struck a chord with a country facing the uncertainty of war.

[4] The poem was included in the closing moments of the 1940 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Frank Borzage film The Mortal Storm, starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Robert Young.