in Mrs. Darcy's absence. These responsibilities extend to looking after Blue Smoke, Mrs. Darcy's own gorgeous hunter worth 500 guineas. However, Blue Smoke gets desperately ill in the middle of the night, and Jill is called up to the riding school to help get the vet, along with Wendy. Source: Jill Has Two Ponies, Chapter 11 List of works As R.C. Ashby Single works The Moorland Man (1926) The Tale of Rowan Christie (1927) Beauty Bewitched (1928) Death at Tiptoe (1931) Miss Graham's Guest ("The Methodist", No. 90, June 1932) Plot Against a Widow (1932) He Arrived at Dusk (1933) One Way Traffic (1933) Out Went the Taper (1934) As Ruby Ferguson Single works Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary (1937) (Republished in 2004 by Persephone Books) The Moment of Truth (1944) Our Dreaming Done (1946) Winter's Grace (1948) Turn Again Home (1951) Apricot Sky (1952) A Paintbox for Pauline (1953) The Leopard's Coast (1954) For Every Favour (1956) Doves in My Fig-tree (1957) The Cousins of Colonel Ivy (1959) The Wakeful Guest (1962) A Woman With a Secret (1965) Children at the Shop: The Charming Autobiography of Childhood (1967) The Queen's Book of the Red Cross. With a message from Her Majesty the Queen and contributions by fifty British authors and artists. In aid of the Lord Mayor of London's Fund for the Red Cross and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1939) (contributor) The Jill series Jill's Gymkhana—sometimes sold with A Stable for Jill. (1949) A Stable for Jill (1951) Jill has Two Ponies (1952) Jill Enjoys her Ponies (1954) (later republished as Jill and the Runaway) Jill's Riding Club (1956) Rosettes for Jill (1957) Jill and the Perfect Pony (1959) Pony Jobs for Jill (1960) (later republished as Challenges for Jill) Jill's Pony Trek (1962) References External links A biographical note from Persephone Books Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary at Persephone Books A review of Lady Rose by Nicholas Clee of The Guardian. More biographical information from Hilary Clare; plot summaries and more from a site specialising in pony books. A useful article about collecting old books, featuring the author's pony books, amongst others. 1899 births 1966 deaths English children's writers English women novelists People educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford People from Hebden Bridge Pony books British women children's writers 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers Place of death