Amanda Owen (born September 1974)[1] is an English shepherd and writer.
Amanda regularly shares insights into her life through Twitter and has built up a strong social media following. In 2014 she released her first Sunday Times bestselling book, The Yorkshire Shepherdess, in 2015 was voted Yorkshirewoman of the year by the Dalesman magazine, and released her second bestselling book, A Year in the Life of The. 32,846 likes 613 talking about this. The Facebook homepage of Amanda Owen: author, journalist, shepherdess, and happily married mother of eight children. The latest tweets from @AmandaOwen8.
Biography[edit]
Amanda Owens Shepherdess Website
She lives and farms on a remote farm, Ravenseat, Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales with her husband Clive Owen and their nine children.[2]
Initially best known through her Twitter feed as 'The Yorkshire Shepherdess',[3] she has now written four books: The Yorkshire Shepherdess (2015), A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2017), Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2019) and Tales from the Farm (2021).
Her Twitter account – packed with sheep, snow, hail, stunning vistas and cherubic children – drew such a following that a book soon followed, The Yorkshire Shepherdess. (Hollywood have bought.
In August 2017 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was a shepherd's whistle, used to communicate with her sheep dogs.[4] On 14 July 2019 she was the subject of BBC Radio 4's On Your Farm.[5] On 21 October 2019, she appeared on the podcast Trees A Crowd with David Oakes.[6]
Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm is an observational documentary series following life on the Owens' farm.[7]
Bibliography[edit]
- The Yorkshire Shepherdess (2015, Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN978-0283071966)
- A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2017, Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN978-0283072413)
- Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2019, Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN978-1509852673)
- Tales From the Farm (2021, Macmillan, ISBN 978-1-5290-7475-8)
References[edit]
Yorkshire Shepherdess Twitter Pictures
- ^Owen, Amanda (2015). The Yorkshire Shepherdess. Pan Books. p. 5. ISBN978-1-4472-5178-1.
- ^Moore, Anna (4 February 2017). 'Amanda Owen, Yorkshire shepherdess: 'I like to give birth alone, like a ewe''. The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^Parker, Olivia (19 April 2014). 'Amanda Owen: Yorkshire's tweeting shepherdess'. The Telegraph. Retrieved 27 August 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^'The Museum of Curiosity: Series 11, episode 4'. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 27 August 2017.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^On Your Farm
- ^Trees A Crowd
- ^'Our Yorkshire Farm TV Guide from RadioTimes'. Radio Times. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
External links[edit]
- yorkshireshepherdess.com — Owen's website
- 'Amanda Owen'. BBC News. 25 January 2017.video interview