tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post383440027295207415..comments2024-03-27T10:21:58.236-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: MARJORIE DIXON (as MARJORIE MACK), The Red Centaur (1939)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-517872092285620792023-02-13T04:12:48.904-08:002023-02-13T04:12:48.904-08:00About 70yers ago, in my university vacations, I wa...About 70yers ago, in my university vacations, I was staying with my old landlady from WWII evavcuation Days,Miss N F Spence and working at Gincox Farm in Holland,Surrey, where her friend Marjorie Dixon was the farmer's wife. Both the ladies were from wealthy backgrounds and went to Allenwood Boarding School with Eleanor Roosevelt. Miss Spence appears, under another name, in 'The Educated Pin' and Gincox (Jane Cook's) farm appears as Hannaboys (Hannah Boyce's) farm in Marjorie Mack's book of that name. Until I read your post I was not aware that she had published under her married nameNorman Cowellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-13817786483235145972017-06-02T10:15:10.945-07:002017-06-02T10:15:10.945-07:00I do like a disappointments post every now and the...I do like a disappointments post every now and then - it reminds us that we're all human and so are the writers we love. Go for it!LyzzyBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16398604923871095647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-11416917685787348672017-05-31T13:43:22.413-07:002017-05-31T13:43:22.413-07:00Thanks, Liz. I think Dixon handles that balance ve...Thanks, Liz. I think Dixon handles that balance very well in Centaur. Sadly, I can't see the same for her other adult novel, Velveteen Jacket, which I have sadly given up on now. I may write about it here in an upcoming "disappointments" post.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-36208649574408237762017-05-25T00:31:17.337-07:002017-05-25T00:31:17.337-07:00Not someone I've ever heard of (but that's...Not someone I've ever heard of (but that's what you're FOR, right? or at least this blog is for) but sounds charming and very well done. Hard to get the line between twee, knowing and unbelievable and navigate between them. LyzzyBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16398604923871095647noreply@blogger.com