Agnes Herbert

Agnes Elsie Diana Herbert, OBE (late 1870s – 1960) was a British 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.[4]

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)[5]
  • Isle of Man (1909)[6]
  • Two Dianas in Alaska (1909)[7]
  • 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)
  • A Girl's Adventure in Korea (1924)

See also

References
  1. "Agnes Herbert". Online Books page. University of Pennsylvania.
  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. Herbert, Agnes; Shikari, A (2004). Two Dianas in Alaska (reprint ed.). pp. v, xiii. ISBN 0811731316.
  5. Herbert, Agnes (1908) [1907]. Two Dianas in Somaliland; the record of a shooting trip. University of California Libraries. London, New York, J. Lane.
  6. Herbert, Agnes; Maxwell, Donald (17 March 1909). "The Isle of Man". London, New York : J. Lane company – via Internet Archive.
  7. Herbert, Agnes; A shikári, pseud (17 March 1909). "Two Dianas in Alaska". London : J. Lane; New York, J. Lane co. – via Internet Archive.


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