Author Topic: Beryl Markham  (Read 798 times)

SusanDoris

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Beryl Markham
« on: April 01, 2016, 03:54:52 PM »
The author, Mary S Lovell, wrote biographies - 'A Scandalous Affair', 'Bess of Hardwicke' and 'The Mitford Girls'. These I have listened to and very much enjoyedso I snt for her first one, written in 1986, about Beryl Markham, the first woman to fly east>west across the Atlantic It is perhaps  not so wdell written as the others, but she was a most interestingcharacter caharacterand was an expertshe also was an expert
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Re: Beryl Markham
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2016, 04:19:46 PM »
Seem to remember that name in another context.  However, travelling east to west over the Atlantic brings its own complexities, and so she has to be admired for that.  Just wikipedia'd her, and I think it must have been that I've heard some of her short stories - perhaps read on BBC?
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