Here are some
of my favorite books, stories and poems. Quotes from many of them
appeared in She Flies
Without Wings, available online. Many are available
for purchase from Amazon (and bookstores worldwide) and most can
be found at your local library. (Note: Fitness,
Performance and the Female Equestrian is also available
online.)
~ Austen,
Jane. Mansfield
Park
~ Bagnold, Enid. National
Velvet
~ Bauer C.A. The
White Horses
~ Benjamin Park. "Alexander Taming Bucephalus".
In Songs of Horses
~ Bird, Isabella. Six Months in the Sandwich Islands,
A
Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
~ Bogan, Louise. "The Dream", The
Blue Estuaries
~ Boucher, Susan. "Partnering Pegasus." In Intimate
Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals
~ Brackenbury, Alison. "Breaking Out" from
The Poetry of Horses, ed. Olwen Way
~ Campbell, Joseph. The
Power of Myth
~ Cornish, Peter. "Lady Midas" - from The
Poetry of Horses, ed. Olwen Way
~ Crimmins, John Joseph. Wind Horse Woman
~ Cronin, Patricia from "Pony Tales". In Horse
People, Writers and Artists on the Horses They Love, ed.
Michael J. Rosen.
~ Curtis, Natalie. Song of the Horse (Navajo Translation)
-
~ Dickens, Monica. Talking
of Horses
~ Dimmick, Barbara. In
the Presence of Horses: A Novel
~ Dobie, J. Frank. "The White Steed of the Prairies".
In Tales of the Mustang
~ Eardley, Carla Jean. "The Woman Who is Part Horse".
In Southwestern
Women: New Voices
~ Ehrlich, Gretel "The Solace of Open Spaces".
In Intimate
Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals
~ Estes, Clarissa. Women
Who Run With the Wolves
~ Fiennes, Celia. The Illustrated Journal of Celia
Fiennes 1662-1741 -
~ Findlay, Patricia Parcifal. Perhaps: A Classic Courtship
-
~ Fry, Christopher. "Venus Observed". In The
Poetry of Horses -
~ Fuller, Margaret. "Woman in the Nineteenth Century
(1845): in Norton
Anthology of Literature by Women
~ Glancy, Diane. "Lead Horse" in Earth
Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American
Experience, ed. Clifford E. Trafzer.
~ Griffin, Susan. Woman
& Nature: The Roaring Inside Her
~ Griffiths, Helen. Horse in the Clouds -
~ Guiney Louise Imogen "The Wild Ride" in Modern
American Poetry: An Introduction, ed. Louis Untermeyer -
~ Harjo, Joy "Interview" from Kalliope: A Journal
of Women's Art -
~ Harman, Samuel W. Hell
on the Border
~ Hays, Helen Ireland. "Horse Tales" in New
York Folklore Quarterly, (Vol. XX, No. 4) -
~ Heath, Jennifer. On
the Edge of Dream
~ Helprin, Mark. Winter's Tale -
~ Henry, Marguerite. Sea
Star, Orphan of Chincoteague
~ Herriot, James. It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet -
~ Hogan, Linda. "Celebration: Birth of a Foal" in Red
Clay: Poems & Stories
~ Hughes, Ted. "Phaethon" on Tales
from Ovid
~ Ivy, Robin. "Child Rider" in The Poetry
of Horses
~ Kelleher, Betsy Talcott. Sometimes a Woman Needs a Horse
web
site
~ Knowles,
James Sheridan. The Love Chase: A Comedy in Five Acts.
~ Le Guin, Ursula. A
Ride on the Red Mare's Back
~ Leakey, Felix. "On the Haystack" in The
Poetry of Horses
~ Llewellyn, Morgan The
Horse Goddess
~ Lowell, Amy. "A Winter's Ride" -
~ Maharam, Trish. "Elegy for Diamond" in Intimate
Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, ed. Linda
Hogan et al
~ Mapson, Jo-Ann. Hank
& Chloe
~ Markham, Beryl. West
with the Night
~ McCarriston, Linda. "Healing the Mare" in
Intimate
Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals
~ McCormick, Adele and Marlena McCormick. Horse
Sense and the Human Heart
~ Perkins, Charles Elliott. The Pinto Horse. (oop)
~ Perkins, Charles Elliott. The
Pinto Horse and the Phantom Bull.
~ Petroski, Catherine. "Beautiful My Mane in the
Wind" in Gravity
and Other Stories
~ Ruepp, Krista. Midnight
Rider.
~ Sandburg, Helga. Blueberry -
~ Seth-Smith, Michael. The Horse in Art and History -
~ Shirley, Glenn. Belle
Starr and Her Times
~ Smith, Betty. A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn
~ Stace, Marjorie. "Racing Rivals" in Horse
and Pony Stories for Girls -
~ Tapahanso, Luci. Blue
Horses Rush In
~ Thomas, Dylan. "Fern Hill." -
~ Twain, Mark. Horse Tales -
~ Untermeyer, Louis. "The Horse of Siena" in The
Donkey of God and Other Stories. -
~ Van der Post, Laurens. About
Blady, A Pattern Out of Time
~ Vincenz, Stanislaw. On the High Uplands: Sagas, Songs,
Tales and Legends of the Carpathians.
~ Watkins, Vernon. "The Mare" in The Poetry of
Horses
~ Wolfe, Tom. A
Man in Full.
~ Zabolotsky, Nikolai Alekseevich. "The Face of the
Horse" in The Poetry of Horses
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