Jill has Two Ponies

Ferguson, Ruby

ISBN 10: 0340041420 / ISBN 13: 9780340041420

Published by Knight Books, 1970

About this Item

Covers worn at edges and a little scuffed. Pages slightly tanned.

Seller Inventory # 123530

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jill has Two Ponies
• Publisher: Knight Books
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340041420
• ISBN 13: 9780340041420
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Dunlop, Bonar
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Animals and Nature

About this title

Synopsis

Jill has been dreaming of getting another pony, and here she is, with her prospective new pony in front of her. There's just one problem. Jill doesn't take to Rapide, and Rapide doesn't take to her. But Jill buys him, and then immediately regrets it. How Jill gets over her dislike of Rapide, while managing with her friends to save Mrs Darcy's riding school, makes this a classic of pony literature.

About the Author

Ruby Ferguson, born in West Yorkshire in 1899, attended Bradford Girls' Grammar School and then read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford between 1919 and 1922. After completing her MA, Ruby Ferguson moved to Manchester and started working as a secretary. Her writing career really began when she entered some detective stories in a competition in the Manchester Evening News. Her first full length novel was published in 1926, under the name R. C. Ashby, and she continued writing under this name until her marriage in 1934. The books for which Ferguson is best known are those about Jill Crewe and her ponies which she wrote for her step-grandchildren. Her final book, published in 1967, the year after her death, is titled The Children at the Shop and is a fictionalized autobiography of her childhood.