tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post1160845381703463699..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: RACHEL FERGUSON, A Harp in Lowndes Square (1936)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-36116880478656602192016-08-12T06:24:12.191-07:002016-08-12T06:24:12.191-07:00Thanks, Kat! I'm happy to "meet" a f...Thanks, Kat! I'm happy to "meet" a fellow Ferguson fan!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-39524212138937532942016-08-10T18:36:55.529-07:002016-08-10T18:36:55.529-07:00I am very excited that you're publishing Rache...I am very excited that you're publishing Rachel Ferguson's books! Alas, Poor Lady is my favorite Persephone, but I have never come across any of Ferguson's other novels. Kathttp://mirabiledictu.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-88585576861088996592016-08-08T05:12:39.365-07:002016-08-08T05:12:39.365-07:00Thanks, Roger, I had no idea!Thanks, Roger, I had no idea!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-11014495308579034642016-08-08T05:12:09.959-07:002016-08-08T05:12:09.959-07:00And there could be useful variations--a movie that...And there could be useful variations--a movie that watches badly, a book that reads badly, a dinner that eats badly?Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-325533128751920872016-08-08T05:09:53.138-07:002016-08-08T05:09:53.138-07:00Hmmmm, not a very apt comparison, I don't thin...Hmmmm, not a very apt comparison, I don't think. On the other hand, I love Ivy Compton-Burnett (and, for that matter, Scooby Doo!), so perhaps you're onto something!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-44857057925425228472016-08-08T05:08:36.709-07:002016-08-08T05:08:36.709-07:00It's a fun concept, I think, Lucy, and may hav...It's a fun concept, I think, Lucy, and may have come--according to our excellent intro writer--from Ferguson's reading of Dunne's Experiment with Time, which seems to have influenced many authors of the time.<br /><br />Suffice it to say I think it would be fun to see Lady Vallant and Mrs Cove pitted against one another!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-26843693163067175232016-08-08T05:04:47.395-07:002016-08-08T05:04:47.395-07:00Interesting, Sue. Thanks for the background!Interesting, Sue. Thanks for the background!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-59370155675130836012016-08-07T05:24:23.163-07:002016-08-07T05:24:23.163-07:00'"maroons" sounding before an air ra...'"maroons" sounding before an air raid; has anyone else ever heard this term for sirens? '<br />A maroon wasn't a siren, but a rocket used as a signal. It exploded in the air making a noise like a chestnut in the fire.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-89451417983834024672016-08-06T14:12:35.779-07:002016-08-06T14:12:35.779-07:00This American has never heard the phrase "lis...This American has never heard the phrase "listened badly" but I like it too!OolooKittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07700749381766680442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-29669631018301097812016-08-06T14:08:15.184-07:002016-08-06T14:08:15.184-07:00You have gotten me very interested in this book. ...You have gotten me very interested in this book. I love the idea of generations seeing each other at different times of life...I've always wanted to see/know my grandmother as a young girl. This author also giving feelings to furniture also sounds neat. I grew up in an old house. When each of us grew up and moved away, it left all these empty, lifeless bedrooms. I thought that was always kind of sad for the room. Finally, I love a story with a good bad person. Lady Vallant sounds awful. Is she on par with Mrs. Cove in Margaret Kennedy's "The Feast"?Lucy at Library Luggagehttp://www.libraryluggage.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-7575139402167767892016-08-06T13:48:16.119-07:002016-08-06T13:48:16.119-07:00Her books are too "offbeat"for me.This s...Her books are too "offbeat"for me.This sounds like a more readable version of Ivy Compton Burnett crossed with the plot of a Scooby Doo cartoon.Sorry to sound so outrageous.<br />TinaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-5494593569948999042016-08-06T13:36:13.440-07:002016-08-06T13:36:13.440-07:00When a Lifeboat needed to be called out they would...When a Lifeboat needed to be called out they would send up a flare to notify the crew that they were needed ( this is before telephones) and that was always called a maroon. This went into the vocabulary so that " a maroon going off" was the signal for something big happening. <br />Sue in Suffolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13166036914348424622noreply@blogger.com