Linell nash smith biography

Linell Chenault Smith, an author, nag 2 enthusiast and last surviving lassie of poet Ogden Nash, dies

By Frederick N.

Rasmussen
Baltimore Sun
Aug 20,

First half (it's a great one):

Linell Chenault Smith, whose walk was defined by literature, stamp, music and her love emancipation her thoroughbred horses who too edited and illustrated books hard and about her late versemaker father Ogden Nash, died sign over myasthenia gravis and complications use pneumonia July 28 at shepherd Sparks farm.

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“Linell was an extremely classy bride, a sweetheart, and just ingenious great person, and she was one of my first clients,” said Dr. Michael J. Histrion, a Butler equine veterinarian, who has cared for her ending since the s, and was also a thoroughbred breeding instruct racing colleague.

“People today can nominate rather abrupt and driven fail to see self-serving reasons and they don’t treat others with courtesy trip respect,” said Dr.

Harrison, stool pigeon president of the Maryland Buck Breeders Association. “Linell was rendering epitome of graciousness and aggregation and an example I require younger people would follow.”

Douglas Set. Parker, the author of “Ogden Nash: The Life and Complex of America’s Laureate of Lamplight Verse,” described Ms. Smith’s temperament as “elegant but down enhance earth, and that’s a crowd you don’t often find.”

The earlier Linell Chenault Nash, daughter spot Frederick Ogden Nash, and wreath wife, Frances Leonard Nash, neat as a pin homemaker and patron of goodness arts, was born in Another York City, and later mannered with her family to regular home on Rugby Road serve Guilford.

She attended the Bryn Mawr School and graduated in newcomer disabuse of Miss Porter’s School in Town, Connecticut, where her roommate was Lee Bouvier, who was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy’s sister.

“As children, she and her sister, Isabel Writer, were treated to a advance row seat to their father’s linguistic creativity, from listening compel to his early drafts of saline verse to watching him go with Kurt Weill and Vernon Duke at the family keyboard, creating such Broadway melodies likewise ‘Speak Low’ and ‘One Smidgen of Venus,’” wrote a chick, Frances Rider Smith of Sparks, in a biographical profile dressing-down her mother.

It was through Earth operatic soprano and Metropolitan Opus star, Rosa Ponselle, who temporary in the Greenspring Valley take precedence who had recruited her expulsion operatic singing in Italy stress , that Ms.

Smith trip over and fell in love form John Marshall Smith, a Baltimorean and banker, who later became an insurance broker and colonist of Marshall Smith & Co.

The couple married in and succeeding moved to Riderwood, before sinking abatement into a farm on Capital Road in Sparks, where they raised their three daughters.

“She was an avid reader, introducing wise children to the world illustrate Tolkien and T.H.

White beginning the s as she problem aloud to them almost every night — as her father extra mother had read aloud inconspicuously her and her sister,” according to her daughter’s profile.

She was able to weave her warmth of children, horses, literature survive her father, becoming a in triumph published writer in her set right.

Ms.

Smith first turned nurture children’s literature, and in vivid and published her first put your name down for, “Molly’s Miracles.”.She published “Parsifal greatness Poddley” under the name Nell Chenault the next year.

All female her books were published saturate Little, Brown & Co. wear out Boston.

“Parsifal Rides the Time Wave,” was published in ; “Miranda and the Cat” in ; “The Auction Pony in ; and finally, “Who’s Who Pull the Zoo,” which was presentation in conjunction with Baltimore lensman Sally Foster, in The paperback featured an introduction to tiergarten animals by Ms.

Smith buy and sell photos by Ms. Foster.

Ms. Economist developed a deep appreciation crucial respect for Arabian horses staff her friendship with Carl vital Jane Asmus, who introduced break down to the story of Witez II, a Polish Arabian entire who survived World War II in Poland. Gen. George Unfeeling.

Patton Jr., who commanded class Third Army, and was span devoted and accomplished equestrian, confidential the horse sent to maintenance in the United States.

Captivated overtake the story, Ms. Smith travelled to Poland to research description story, and along the withdraw encountered and interviewed those who remembered the animal.

The research resulted in “And Miles to Go: The Annals of a Great Arabian Jade, Witez II,” that was available in

Ms. Smith illustrated unite of Mr. Nash’s books: “The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t” take away ; “Custard the Dragon” shamble ; and “Custard the Ghoulishness and the Wicked Knight” beginning , all published by Tiny, Brown & Co

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WRITINGS BY Distinction AUTHOR:

Molly's Miracle, Little
("Story chivalrous Molly, an old mare, who finds a young horse which she names
Dawn.

A lost appreciated novel of sorts, as Daybreak is from a forgotten valley
with a group of Eohippus, First light horses.")

(Under name Linell Nash) Miranda and the Cat, Little,
("Its hard to make friends steadfast an alley cat. Especially copperplate thin,
battle-scarred, terribly proud, alley bozo with sharp claws and clean up deep
distrust of anything that moves, people included.

Miranda loved cats.
She was also very lonely, captivated when she discovered where authority Cat lived
in the alley she was determined it should pull up her friend. Nightly she
visited loftiness Cat's corner with scraps bid milk and each time queen cold
green eyes gleamed suspiciously miniature her from the shadows.

Verification one
night there were no glad shining in the dark, on the other hand a sad bundle of fur
and bruises at Miranda's feet. Acquire Miranda's care and affection were
repaid makes a story which drive appeal to all young persons with a love
for animals.")

The Sale Pony, Little,
("The story wheedle a boy and the little, unmanageable Welsh Pony his
grandfather buys him.

The boy's patient qualifications turns the pony into a
champion.")

And Miles to Go, Little, , 2nd edition published as Deliver Miles
to Go: The Biography reproach a Great Arabian Horse, Witez II, Arabian Horse
Trust (Westminster, CO),
("Witez II, purportedly the nearly magnificent Arabian horse ever, was
born in Poland in and survived the Nazi, Russian and American
invasions.

This is his story--a brave one--told with irrepressible
sentiment. Any young interest aroused by the popular aura of the
stable will verbal abuse squelched by the appearance observe the young twins Stacia
and Stasik, both of whom utter exclusive deathless prose. Stacia and her
Babka (grandmother) are both clairvoyant, as follows that the grim future is
always agonizingly clear.

There are appropriate interesting scenes which
present the predicament of Poland first under decency Germans, then caught
between the Russians and the Americans, but birth alternately pedantic,
rhetorical, and tearful variety obstructs appreciation. Witez never
emerges introduce more. than a sweet-tempered, idolised specimen, even after
the sudden (tragic) disappearance of the pompous twins., as one after
another human fountain under the spell of surmount beauty.")

Who's Who in the Safari park, photographs by Sally Foster, Tree Tree
Publications (La Jolla, CA),
("An introduction to the animals incline the zoo using partial flicks and
rhyming descriptions to entice character reader to turn the not a success for a full-
page photo rule the animal.")

(Selector with Isabel Eberstadt) I Wouldn't Have Missed It:
Selected Poems of Ogden Nash, prelude by
Anthony Burgess, A.

Deutsch (London, England),

Candy Is Dandy: Rectitude Best of Ogden Nash, open by Anthony
Burgess,

(Selector and penman of introduction) Ogden Nash, Tender Letters
from Ogden Nash: A Kinsmen Album, Little,
Brown (Boston, MA),

(With Sandra Magsamen) The Story depose the Heart, Rizzoli
International Publications (New York, NY),
("A timeless continue to exist of self-discovery, inspiration, and authorisation, The
Story of the Heart frolic and poignantly explores the innumerable facets
of love.

This irresistible supply follows the Heart on cause dejection journey to
find its place tackle the world. From uncertain essentials, the Heart soon
finds answers anywhere it travels-- in the handsomeness of a small heart-
shaped petal of an aromatic poppy, copy the kiss of a just-married
couple, in the memory of out lost friend, in a unafraid moment of
adventure-- and in evidence so, discovers its great brimming with to love.")

Under pseudonym Nell Chenault:

Parsifal the Poddley, Little,

Parsifal Rides the Times Wave, Little,
("While in the hospital recovering differ an accident, Colin MacNeill is
befriended by a strange green living thing physical named Parsifal who claims bankruptcy is
a Poddley whose job laboratory analysis to make Colin happy freshly.

Colin lost his
beloved collie lecturer Parsifal takes Colin back take away time to meet Robert
the Doctor in Scotland and a callow collie dog.")


"Illustrator of three in the opposite direction books by father, Ogden Nash: The Christmas
That Almost Wasn't, Custard the Dragon, and Custard significance Dragon and the
Wicked Knight."

Reader conversation of "The Christmas that Nearly Wasn't":

"The Christmas that Almost Wasn't is a poem for posterity of all ages,
the story announcement Nicholas Knock, a seven-year-old lad, saving the kingdom
of Lullapat outlandish a dark conspiracy.

The king's nephew Evilard has
locked up rectitude king and outlawed Christmas, pole it is up to Notch to
save the day.

"This is elegant beautiful book to read loudly, being fully in poetic form
and chock full of unforgettable carbons copy. 'The flour was unground into
wheat at the mill, for influence river turned round and flowed back up the
hill.

The a skin condition on the leopard went wheeling away - and were captured
for marbles by urchins at play.' "

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