Jenny Pitman now a prolific writer of novels, principally with a racing spin. A survivor of thyroid cancer, she is a patron of the British Thyroid Foundation. Glorious Uncertainty (1984) On the Edge (2002) Double Deal (2002) The Dilemma (2003) The Vendetta (2004) The Inheritance (2005) Jenny Pitman Jennifer Susan Pitman OBE ("née" Harvey, born 11 June 1946), known as Jenny Pitman, is a former British racehorse trainer and author. She became the first woman to train a Grand National winner, when Corbiere won the race in 1983. She went on to win a second Grand National with Royal Athlete in 1995.
The Woman Who Was Poor The Woman Who Was Poor The Woman Who Was Poor () is an 1897 novel by the French writer Léon Bloy. It follows a woman, Clotilde, who becomes involved with the Paris art and literary scene in the 1880s. It was Bloy's second novel. An English translation by I. J. Collins was published in 1939. Ernest Boyd of the "Saturday Review" wrote in 1939 about the English-language edition: The translator duly apologizes for his squeamishness, although none of our current exponents of the "Anglo-Saxon" monosyllables would have been deterred by Bloy, even if disgusted by his deliberate and unnecessary blasphemies.