Agnes Herbert

Agnes Elsie Diana Herbert (late 1870s – 1960) was a writer and big game hunter.[1]

The daughter of James Bateman Thorpe, she was born Agnes Elsie Diana Thorpe on the Isle of Man and grew up there.[1] She was privately tutored. With a cousin, she visited the Canadian Rockies, where the two women taught Chinese kitchen workers in mining camps how to cook English-style food; they also tried hunting. In 1906, the two cousins left on a hunting trip to Somaliland.[2] She had one daughter, the novelist Bradda Field.[3]

She first married a Mr. Herbert and became a widow some time later. In 1913, she married Archibald Thomas Stewart, a commander in the Royal Navy.[1]

Herbert was a member of the Society of Women Journalists, also serving as its vice-chair and later vice-president. She was editor of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook from 1922 to 1929. In 1931, Herbert was named an officer of the Order of the British Empire.[1]

Selected bibliography

Sources:[1][4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Herbert, Agnes; Shikari, A (2004). Two Dianas in Alaska (reprint ed.). pp. v, xiii. ISBN 0811731316.
  2. ↑ Czech, Kenneth P (2002). With Rifle and Petticoat: Women As Big Game Hunters, 1880-1940. pp. 67–71. ISBN 1586670824.
  3. ↑ C. E. B., 'Books of the Day', The Illustrated London News, Saturday, March 3, 1928, p.342.
  4. ↑ "Agnes Herbert". Online Books page. University of Pennsylvania.



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