Anne Bosworth Greene

Greylight

Century Co, New York and London, 1923, illus C M Relyea, 222 pp.

“The white Shetland pony Greylight goes to live with the little girl Babs and shares her barn with a brown mare named
Cupid.”

Anne Bosworth Green (1878-1961) was born in England, and was a landscape artist, essayist and travel writer.  She lived briefly in Tryon, and then in Boston, MA, as well as in Vermont, which provided the material for one of her books The Lone Winter, which describes a winter she spent alone on her farm there after her daughter went away to school.  Farming she possibly did not find that enthralling:  she said “A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.”  She kept a herd of ponies on the farm, as well as riding horses.    

She wrote two horse books:  Greylight and The White Pony in the Hills, about a Shetland pony.

Many thanks to Lisa Catz the photograph.

Finding the book: White Pony is the easier of the two books to find:  The White Pony in the Hills tends to be difficult, and expensive.  Neither book was published in the UK.

Sources and links:

On Anne Greene as an artist

Excerpts from her diary, The Lone Winter, 1923

Some examples of her pictures

Bibliography - horse books only

The White Pony in the Hills

Century Co, New York and London, 1927, illus C M Relyea, 254 pp.

“Babs and her mother move with their ponyo Grelight and mare Cupid to a farm in the mountains where Greyand
mare Cupid to a farm in the mountains were Grey gets to carry Babs to school and the nervous Cupid starts to
relax.”

Greylight

Greylight
The White Pony in the Hills