tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post8293372813143911521..comments2024-03-27T10:21:58.236-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: Update: A MiscellanyFurrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-23328006627322449752014-02-27T09:28:20.977-08:002014-02-27T09:28:20.977-08:00I love how John Cleese is clutching at her with a ...I love how John Cleese is clutching at her with a talon-like grip. It's almost making me want to read the novel to try to figure out what drama is being represented here! :-)Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-74525643203476692642014-02-27T09:26:45.583-08:002014-02-27T09:26:45.583-08:00Ordeal by Marriage is one of my favorite titles fr...Ordeal by Marriage is one of my favorite titles from this batch. And the cover is actually rather nice too, with the dark figure brooding over a desk (I think?) while all the other couples frolic in the background.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-457949051193831612014-02-27T05:24:45.162-08:002014-02-27T05:24:45.162-08:00No I haven't read her novel but I think she wa...No I haven't read her novel but I think she was quite something as a person.<br /><br />Concordia's book "Ordeal by Marriage" reminds me of one of the advice books I collect: "How to stay happy, though married".....Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-22328820558757637252014-02-27T05:22:03.752-08:002014-02-27T05:22:03.752-08:00I'm pretty sure it's her back and sides - ...I'm pretty sure it's her back and sides - she would be in some pain were it to be her breast, squeezed at that angle!Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-72141005979205810142014-02-26T17:59:44.662-08:002014-02-26T17:59:44.662-08:00Lovely, Susan. I don't think that was there w...Lovely, Susan. I don't think that was there when I was preparing the post, because I really tried to find a cover image of Ann's an Idiot. With such an irresistible title, I felt I had to see what the cover looked like. <br /><br />I've added the image at the bottom of the post. Thanks for doing some of my work for me!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-81990825933028043882014-02-26T17:55:24.848-08:002014-02-26T17:55:24.848-08:00Oh heavens no, Susan! I couldn't possibly aff...Oh heavens no, Susan! I couldn't possibly afford all of these books, nor could I afford the full-scale library that would be required to store them. But I do love to fantasize, and imagine myself book shopping in these years and coming across such lovely (and/or odd) covers.<br /><br />I THINK what you're seeing on the Ashes of Desire cover is the slutty flapper's back and side, but I could be mistaken. And you're absolutely right, the man does look like John Cleese in the Fawlty Towers era!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-42871452200040957412014-02-26T17:50:39.024-08:002014-02-26T17:50:39.024-08:00I know, aren't they wonderful? You can tell, ...I know, aren't they wonderful? You can tell, I'm sure, that I am completely infatuated with dust jackets from this period. Today's jackets just don't seem as interesting, but perhaps that's just a matter of perspective?Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-34459754156942610902014-02-26T17:48:43.559-08:002014-02-26T17:48:43.559-08:00Cestina, that must have been such a fascinating tr...Cestina, that must have been such a fascinating trial to follow "live," as it were. Have you read Scott-James's novel? It does sound seductive! And it seems from looking at her bio briefly that she was quite an interesting person.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-41849390799227251782014-02-26T16:16:17.525-08:002014-02-26T16:16:17.525-08:00Oh, I couldn't resist....
http://www.yesterday...Oh, I couldn't resist....<br />http://www.yesterdaysgallery.com/pages/books/23682/pamela-wynne/anns-an-idiot-dangerous-innocence Susan Dhttp://www.destevenson.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-35191414328435397082014-02-26T16:13:38.624-08:002014-02-26T16:13:38.624-08:00Really, Scott, I'm beginning to suspect you ha...Really, Scott, I'm beginning to suspect you have a time machine, if you're actually acquiring these lovelies. (Or are you just collecting pics of the covers). I'm truly stunned by all the many many different books and writers that flowed through the literary world and vanished. <br /><br />And I have to say that Ashes of Desire is the single most astounding book cover I've seen in a long time. It's absolutely delicious. And by the author of "Ann's an Idiot", no doubt another immortal tale. But really, John Cleese in striped pyjamas, being vamped by a truly slutty flapper (IS that a breast on display??) And he's looking totally unimpressed with the whole situation.Susan Dhttp://www.destevenson.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-40431613051394398442014-02-26T12:23:39.942-08:002014-02-26T12:23:39.942-08:00Some of those covers are just amazing - I think I ...Some of those covers are just amazing - I think I would buy the books for those alone!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-9076973056039216542014-02-26T09:05:34.123-08:002014-02-26T09:05:34.123-08:00Good heavens, a whole raft of authors I have never...Good heavens, a whole raft of authors I have never heard of - only Anne Scott-James is familiar to me. I love this quote from her obituary in the Guardian: "A scholarship took her to Somerville College, Oxford, where she won a first in classics in the first part of her degree. She was rightly proud of this and, on at least one occasion, it stood her in good stead. As a witness in the celebrated Lady Chatterley-Penguin Books trial (1960), the obtuse prosecution asked sneeringly what worth was her opinion as a mere woman journalist. She replied calmly and crushingly that she had an Oxford first." (I am old enough, by the way, to remember that book trial very well)<br /><br />What an amazing name Concordia Merrell is! And I can't believe there is yet another Strachey.....Cestinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03050699324845479257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-46656467958111137492014-02-26T08:46:53.036-08:002014-02-26T08:46:53.036-08:00You would think second hand book dealers would be ...You would think second hand book dealers would be giving me a little kickback, wouldn't you, Peggy? But alas no. I hope you enjoy the Molly Claverings, and if you do read Hickey or Inglis-Jones or Alice Armstrong Low, you must let me know what they're like and what you think of them! The latter is probably one of the most obscure on my whole list. I only came across her by accident on Worldcat, and could find no information about her at all.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-28564843308706511462014-02-26T06:18:35.938-08:002014-02-26T06:18:35.938-08:00Scott, as a new follower I can see you are going t...Scott, as a new follower I can see you are going to be very dangerous for my bookshelves! I just received two Mary Clavering books in the mail I just had to have after reading you. Now I have to find Wynne Hickey's mysteries and something by Inglis-Jones and Armstrong Low would fit right in with my Read Scotland challenge! I love the obscure ones! Such lovely covers on the books!Peggy Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426356514707257708noreply@blogger.com