About the author
Ethelind Fearon’s literary output was mostly non-fiction. She opened a tea house, and wrote widely on cookery: Fancy Cakes and Pastries and Home-made Sweets, Candies and Fudge being just two of her titles. From the snippets I’ve been able to find, going to dinner with her must have been an experience: it’s not everyone who will serve you cold rice pudding, stewed prunes, lettuce, oil and lemon juice all in the same dish and inform you you are eating salad.
She also wrote on the joys of pig-keeping (Me and Mr Mountjoy), as well as a few children’s books for Lutterworth (The Secret of the Chateau and The Sheep-dog Adventure). Her one horse-related book is Pluckrose’s Horse. It is so long ago that I read (and indeed sold) the one copy I’ve ever had, I can’t comment on it, but bearing in mind what her cookery was like, I think I need to read it again.
Finding the book
Tricky to track down, so can be erratically priced.
Sources and links
British Library catalogue
Ethelind Fearon on etiquette
Ethelind Fearon on making a salad (and other things)
Bibliography (pony books only)
Pluckrose’s Horse
Lutterworth, London, 1955, illus Richard Kennedy, 191 pp.
This is the story of the Pluckroses of Abbey Farm, and their horse, who in fact is not a horse at all but a pony. The Pluckrose family go to a circus at Olympia, and bring home a rather unpredictable performing pony. They call him Hoppy, as when his mind is on the job he can jump anything. Unfortunately, they cannot discover what exactly it is that makes him jump, so sometimes he is appalling, sometimes brilliant, and sometimes he won’t jump at all.
