Word: horsewoman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...totally different and exceedingly interesting people. She was a lady taking an Italian lesson; she was a Cockney girl on the Thames embankment; she was a Philadelphia matron at a children's party; she was a Polish actress, having scenes with her director; she was an English horsewoman, mouthing at her breakfast; she was a U. S. tourist in an Italian-church; she was a Dalmatian peasant girl, standing in the hallway of a U. S. hospital, asking about her husband who was hurt. Then she was Ruth Draper again, standing on the stage and bowing to the applause...
...Author Asquith's first novel contains more conversation than narrative, ecstatic critics are likening her to Jane Austen. But the light touch and the subtleties of the 19th century novelist are not Margot's-hers is rather a brilliant vivacity that springs from her myriad interests. Able horsewoman, her interest reflects itself in frequent contemplation of the technicalities of horseflesh. Scintillating conversationalist, her characters reflect the widely varied circle of her acquaintance. A liberal in politics, she tilts sharply at conservatism. And the result is a mass of entertaining material, done into novel-form to allow of romance...
...school until she met and married William G. Peterkin, prosperous planter. She put by her plans for a musical and perhaps theatrical career to manage the Peterkin plantation, "Lang Syne," 40 miles from Columbia, S. C., and bring up a son who is now 22. She became "a superb horsewoman, a keen huntswoman and an excellent shot." Not until the 1920's did she start writing and her first things won instant recognition, including an O. Henry Memorial mention. A professor-friend describes her: "Well above medium height of her sex; up standing, virile and vivacious. Hair plentiful, rather...
Married. Margaretta Barnwell ("Peggy") McNeal, Philadelphia horsewoman; to W. Deering Davis, onetime Chicago, now Paris horseman; at Devon...
Astrid. The Princess, a distinctly "healthy" beauty, is an excellent horsewoman, pursues enthusiastically the vigorous pastimes of Scandinavian aristocrats: hiking, hunting, skiing, yachting...