tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post1838347495857639548..comments2024-03-17T19:12:20.596-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: Update: Mysteriously romantic (2 of 3)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-41379600688988016392014-03-24T10:00:25.721-07:002014-03-24T10:00:25.721-07:00Lucy Walker was Australian, so I suppose she won&#...Lucy Walker was Australian, so I suppose she won't make the cut. She wrote standard romances of her era, but also a series of books based on an Australian-Irish family, the Montgomerys that I always enjoyed. Susan Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-25784770970357319472014-03-23T11:35:23.413-07:002014-03-23T11:35:23.413-07:00Amazing to think of the array of women who have be...Amazing to think of the array of women who have been marketed as "romance" at one time or another, isn't it? It gives me pause sometimes when I add these writers. Are they really romance in the narrower, Mills & Boon-ish sense, or are they really something more? Who knows?<br /><br />As it happens, Iris Bromige will be in my next big update. Denise Robins is already on the list, but clearly I must look more closely at Lucy Walker. Always more to add! Thanks, Susan.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-44194354786526750732014-03-23T07:40:38.950-07:002014-03-23T07:40:38.950-07:00I'm pretty sure Hermina Black and Netta Musket...I'm pretty sure Hermina Black and Netta Muskett were names I saw all the time in the seventies on paperback "romantic novels" (a convenient catch-all category for many women writers), while browsing the bookshop shelves for Mary Stewart and D E Stevenson. Other names that come to mind are Iris Bromige, Denise Robins, Lucy Walker.Susan Dhttp://www.dalyght.ca/cuba2014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-3116361608222379222014-03-22T14:25:35.905-07:002014-03-22T14:25:35.905-07:00Oh, you're right, sometimes I look more at the...Oh, you're right, sometimes I look more at the colors and compositions of the covers, but now that I look more closely there are actually several nice frocks in this post, aren't there? Even the Hermina Black cover of Romance for Romany has a pretty nice one--on the perky side perhaps, but still nice. Perhaps that should have been the theme of the post!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-58335292310094335202014-03-22T12:16:07.138-07:002014-03-22T12:16:07.138-07:00I had your page open, went away for a moment and c...I had your page open, went away for a moment and came back to find you'd posted. What wonderful covers! I want to live in a Diana Patrick novel and wear those frocks. Most of the authors are unknown to me, though I remember shelving Hermina Black and Netta Muskett in the library I worked in in the 70s. Judging the books by their covers, I suspect there's little literary merit but I'd treasure them for the coversAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com