![]() ![]() West with the Night and this volume comprise Markham’s known written work. Lovell observes in helpful and clearly written introductions, such was the magazine market in those war years. That this accomplished woman wrote tales so determinedly romantic seems rather odd yet, as Mary S. ![]() The last four stories, more obviously fictional and broadly romantic, are likely collaborative efforts of Markham with either her third husband, writer Raoul Schumacher, or her friend and fellow writer, Stuart Cloete they are more commercial and less satisfying. West with the Night Beryl Markhams West with the Night takes the reader on a journey from her childhood to her courageous flight and the pinnacle of her career. About horses, flying and romance, the early autobiographical stories in particular are vivid with details of African custom and landscape gleaned from the author’s early life in Kenya. Pretty amazing, right Surprisingly, this fascinating woman’s history lived in obscurity until her rediscovery in. Written in the ’40s for magazines such as Ladies’ Home Journal and Collier’s, these eight stories belong both to their time and to their author, the aviatrix and horse trainer whose bestselling West with the Nightdetailing her 1936 solo flight east to west across the Atlanticwas recently reissued. She also wrote a memoir about her aviation adventures called West with the Night. ![]()
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