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Post by Claire on Jan 11, 2008 23:01:19 GMT 1
Hi, trying to find some more out about this author, but as with so many pony book authors not a lot to be found. I know that she was ridiculously young (12 or 13?) when she wrote her first couple of books. There was a little bit about her on the dust jacket of one of her books I had but I have no longer got it. Wondered if anyone else might have a copy of any of her books with some blurb about her on the jacket - or if anyone knows anything else?
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Post by exmoorfan on Feb 24, 2008 20:54:13 GMT 1
Hi Claire. I know nothing..lo...But a search showed a couple of books you may already know..? Antiqbook seem to have some of hers.. And Jane has a bit of info.. But maybe you know this.? I forget now but there was a nice jacket on one of the sites I visited.. Sorry
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Post by garej on Feb 24, 2008 21:00:20 GMT 1
Luckily I had Tally Ho (I bought it on Thursday as a birthday present to myself) in front of me and the blurb reads:-
"THIS is a story about an Irish Hunter, Tally Ho. It begins with the capture of a grey colt who was running wild with the herd on the hills, and it ends with the old broken-winded hunter returning to freedom on his native hills after an eventful life of hunting, racing and hack work. Moyra Charlton began the story just after her eleventh birthday and finished it ten months later. A dictionary was her only helper: that was for spelling. She needed no assistance for facts: out of her own experience her story has come, and she knows as much about horses and hunting as many grown-ups who have followed hounds a score of years."
British Library says that she has written 9 books (at least one seems to be non-pony), but then again, British Library can be incomplete. They are:-
Tally Ho (1930) Patch: The story of a mongrel (1931) The Midnight Steeplechase (1932) Three White Stockings (1933) My Lord Goes Wayfaring (1935) One Man in his Time (1938) Echoing Horn (1939) Pendellion (1948) Wind from Spain (1950)
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Post by Claire on Feb 24, 2008 21:37:45 GMT 1
Thanks you two, since posting this I have found out a little about her and put it on my site but not much. I havent had time to check Janes site for a while will have a mosey there too. I think Moyra definitely wins the prize for the youngest writer tho!
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Post by garej on Feb 24, 2008 21:47:29 GMT 1
Claire, do you want a scan of Jean Slaughter Doty's The valley of ponies, The Monday horses and The Crumb? I can get you scans of them.
Also, Beryl Bye's Belle's Bridle was reprinted in 2000 in paperback (same cover) and is available from the publisher. For some strange reason they did not publish Nobody's Pony in paperback, and that remains the only one not available in paperback.
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Post by Claire on Feb 24, 2008 22:29:08 GMT 1
Garej yes please to the scans.
Thanks for that infor re. Belles Bridle, didnt think it had been reprinted. What was the publisher do you know? Will amend the site. It seems strange that nobodys pony wasnt reprinted as that was the first in the series.
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Post by garej on Feb 24, 2008 22:33:12 GMT 1
Garej yes please to the scans. Thanks for that infor re. Belles Bridle, didnt think it had been reprinted. What was the publisher do you know? Will amend the site. It seems strange that nobodys pony wasnt reprinted as that was the first in the series. Lutterworth Press republished it, and their website is here:- www.lutterworth.com/It's in the catalogue section, listed under "Children's Religious Titles". Two other Beryl Bye books have been republished by the same company, as well. There is also a tiny bit about the author on her site, which reads:- "Beryl Bye - wife, mother and writer - lives near Cheltenham. Based on her wide experience of family and parish life, she has written a number of books for adults and children, and enjoys broadcasting on radio." I cant find evidence of her on radio - so presumably she only broadcasts occasionally on local radio.
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