Agnes Elsie Diana Herbert,

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(late 1870s – 1960) was a British writer and

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. The daughter of James Bateman Thorpe, she was born Agnes Elsie Diana Thorpe on the

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and grew up there. She was privately tutored. With a cousin, she visited the Canadian

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, 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

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. She had one daughter, the novelist Bradda Field. 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. Herbert was a member of the

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, also serving as its vice-chair and later vice-president. She was editor of the ''

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'' from 1922 to 1929. In 1931, Herbert was named an officer of the

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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) * ''A Girl's Adventure in Korea'' (1924)

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* Year of birth uncertain 1960 deaths British travel writers British hunters Manx writers Officers of the Order of the British Empire Manx women writers 20th-century Manx writers British women travel writers {{IsleofMan-bio-stub

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