Horses for courses

[altariel]

Wonderful well-read f'list, can you help gillo with the following question that has come up in the course of her studies?

I am deep in The Essay currently, and working on a section about literary references. One I'm finding interesting is the heroine meeting the hero when he is on a horse - astride the mighty stallion, pulsing with power etcetc. Both Woolf and Holtby use it in the books I'm working on (Orlando and South Riding) but in interestingly different ways.

Can anyone think of any other examples, before 1928? I know about Jane Eyre, and there's another good one in Sense and Sensibility, but I'd like a few others if possible, especially in popular literature.

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[gillo]

I can think of a couple, but mostly in much later books. I don't wholly envision Virginia curling up to enjoy a Heyer, though - do you?

[azalaisdep.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can envision dear Virginia curling up with anything that could be described as popular literature, quite honestly!

[gillo]

She was extraordinarily bitchy about Winifred Holtby! I'm sure she felt popularity was beneath anyone with the soul of a true artist.