Personal Life
Before her motoring career Levitt was reportedly a noted horse-rider. She made direct reference to her riding experience in the press: In going that pace, the hardest thing is to keep in the car ... It is far harder work to sit in the car than to ride a galloping horse over the jumps in a steeplechase.
According to a November 1906 interview with the Penny Illustrated Paper Levitt balanced the fearful excitement of automobile racing by quietly going fishing. and described trout fishing as her favourite sport. She also described poker as her favourite game and claimed significant expertise at roulette. Outlining her 'most wonderful secret system with which she is going this winter to attempt to break the bank at Monte Carlo.'
Both Levitt's book and newspaper column in The Graphic described her atypical lifestyle for the Edwardian era, an independent, privileged, 'bachelor girl', living with friends in the 'West End' of London and waited on by two servants.
Levitt was noted for her ever-present, yappy, black Pomeranian dog called Dodo. A gift from Mademoiselle Marie Cornelle around 1903, he had been smuggled into England by being drugged and then hidden in the repair box of an automobile.
Read more about this topic: Dorothy Levitt
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:
“Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of the speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)
“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)