Marjorie Hessell Tiltman’s Taste for Adventure
Posted: September 13th, 2016 | 1 Comment »I’ve written about Marjorie Hessell Tiltman, the wife of Hugh Hessell Tiltman, a well known journalist (and probably British spy) in 1930s China. Marjorie shared a good deal of Hugh’s China adventures with him. After laving China in the early 1930s the Hessell Tiltman’s settled in Sussex and Marjorie wrote a book about their rural English life Cottage Pie (more here from my previous post on Marjorie). The other day I came across this book by Marjorie I had not been aware of before, published in 1935 it showed she never lost her taste for adventure….it’s also a very stylish cover I think and rare to find a copy with the jacket intact these days…
Hi, just found your site when searching for the book Women in Modern Adventure. just got a copy, but wanted to share my favorite female travel author, and I have plenty. Do you know about Ida Hurst? very hard to find her books but the one up your alley is Typist in China from 1941. Without going through your whole blog, who are your top favorites? always looking for suggestions. Only like pre-1950’s accounts. Cheers!