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 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
- Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip (1908)
- Isle of Man (1909)
- Two Dianas in Alaska (1909)
- The Life Story of a Lion (1911)
- Casuals in the Caucasus: The Diary of a Sporting Holiday (1912)
- The Moose (1913)
- The Elephant (1917)
- Northumberland. Painted by A. Heaton Cooper. Described by Agnes Herbert (1923)
- Korea (1924)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Herbert, Agnes; Shikari, A (2004). Two Dianas in Alaska (reprint ed.). pp. v,xiii. ISBN 0811731316.
- ↑ Czech, Kenneth P (2002). With Rifle and Petticoat: Women As Big Game Hunters, 1880-1940. pp. 67–71. ISBN 1586670824.
- ↑ "Agnes Herbert". Online Books page. University of Pennsylvania.