Daphne Moore’s diaries, brought here to the public for the first time, open up a whole world of hunting and its characters from 1930 and throughout the next half century.
Daphne Moore was known to many in the hunting fraternity for her expert reports in Horse & Hound magazine over many decades. Aristocratically turned out and well-spoken, he appearance belied her circumstances. She lived on a shoe-string off her reporting, followed the hounds on foot and in her younger days even cycled many miles to get there and back.
Remarkably, after producing a professional report of each days’ hunting, she then turned to writing up – and illustrating in charming watercolours – her own diaries.
As well as portraying the golden days of hunting pre-WWII, Daphne covers the darkest of times in the countryside and her own personal life as war broke out and packs struggled to survive.
But survive hunting did, and Daphne’s elegant prose throws light on a lost world.
Hardback.