tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post4744667696873456231..comments2024-03-28T12:00:55.653-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: RACHEL FERGUSON, Three impossibly obscure early works (and just how many novels did she write anyway?)Furrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-47965506216780635342020-06-05T13:17:21.512-07:002020-06-05T13:17:21.512-07:0020p might be just about a fair price for Lady X, R...20p might be just about a fair price for Lady X, Robin, but if you found it somewhat entertaining, I do urge you to try some of her better work--Brontes Went to Woolworth's, Alas Poor Lady from Persephone, or the three that I reprinted as Furrowed Middlebrow books with Dean Street Press!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-72925065661240510492020-05-29T04:43:22.688-07:002020-05-29T04:43:22.688-07:00A most interesting and enlightening post! Having j...A most interesting and enlightening post! Having just read Lady X, and been somewhat bemused, confused, entranced and repulsed by turn (and looking online for some information and context), your observations are very welcome. I had not read Rachel Ferguson before, and this book has been on my shelf for any number of years; I see that it was bought for 20p from a second-hand bookstore in the Charing Cross Road!Robin Gordon-Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06339051108041919291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-53441595801066520522016-05-18T07:37:13.813-07:002016-05-18T07:37:13.813-07:00Thanks, Simon! Wow, a pound for Child in the Theat...Thanks, Simon! Wow, a pound for Child in the Theatre is a very good deal indeed. That one is next on my list to read. And I'm very glad to hear you're interested in reading some of her other books...Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-23606218423939279992016-05-18T07:35:00.338-07:002016-05-18T07:35:00.338-07:00This is wonderful! Thanks for tracking this down. ...This is wonderful! Thanks for tracking this down. I think there are actually at least two new authors for my list here (you mentioned on in your email). I had found a partial list of their titles, which I meant to share, but it had only a few of these--though strangely it also mentioned a few more authors of upcoming releases who aren't listed here. Maybe their publishing plans didn't all come to fruition?Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-84917996161065641092016-05-18T07:33:02.155-07:002016-05-18T07:33:02.155-07:00Thank you, Mary! I haven't got to Royal Boroug...Thank you, Mary! I haven't got to Royal Borough yet, though I plan to, and Passionate Kensington is the earlier volume, both apparently reminiscences of life in Kensington, local history, anecdotes, etc. <br /><br />Perhaps her other titles won't always be so difficult to find. Fingers crossed!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-55926886951677572542016-05-18T07:11:19.691-07:002016-05-18T07:11:19.691-07:00Great post! So much depth. Rachel Ferguson is an a...Great post! So much depth. Rachel Ferguson is an author I'd love to read a lot more by - so far I've read the two in print, the memoir (thanks for the link!), and A Harp in Lowndes Square, which I thought was good. (I had to read that one in a library.) I managed to find A Child in the Theatre for £1 once, astonishingly, and keep saving it up.Simon T (StuckinaBook)http://www.stuckinabook.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-81912149481974761452016-05-16T21:36:02.674-07:002016-05-16T21:36:02.674-07:00I did a little research project because I was curi...I did a little research project because I was curious about the "New Ninepenny Novels" series that "The Stag at Bay" appeared in. I could not find a checklist in one spot online, so I had to construct one. There were 32 volumes in the series altogether, appearing in 1932 and 1933:<br /><br />No. 1 – J.D. Beresford, The Next Generation (1932)<br />No. 2 – Naomi Royde-Smith, Incredible Tale (1932)<br />No. 3 – Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Love Is a Flame (1932)<br />No. 4 – Eden Phillpotts, The Broom Squires (1932)<br />No. 5 – Storm Jameson, The Single Heart (1932)<br />No. 6 – Alec Waugh, Leap Before You Look (1932)<br />No. 7 – H. de Vere Stacpoole, Love on the Adriatic (1932) <br />No. 8 – Sydney Horler, Gentleman-in-Waiting (1932)<br />No. 9 – Alice Perrin, Other Sheep (1932)<br />No. 10 – Rachel Ferguson, The Stag at Bay (1932)<br />No. 11 – Mrs. C.N. Williamson, Last Year’s Wife (1932)<br />No. 12 – Stephen Graham, Everybody Pays (1932)<br />No. 13 – George R. Preedy, The Devil Snar’d (1932)<br />No. 14 – V. Sackville-West, The Death of Noble Godavary and Gottfried Kunstler (1932)<br />No. 15 – Winifred Graham, Vacant Possession (1932)<br />No. 16 – J.S. Fletcher, The Burma Ruby (1932)<br />No. 17 – Kathleen Norris, Young Mother Hubbard (1932)<br />No. 18 – John Haslette Vahey, The Wavering Balance (1932)<br />No. 19 – Elinor Glyn, Glorious Flames (1932)<br />No. 20 – Anthony Armstrong, The Poison Trail (1932)<br />No. 21 – Joseph Hergesheimer, Love in the United States, and The Big Shot (1932)<br />No. 22 – Owen Rutter, The Monster of Mu (1932)<br />No. 23 – Netta Syrett, Who Was Florriemay? (1932)<br />No. 24 – Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Reason Why (1932)<br />No. 25 – Archibald Marshall, Mrs. Jim (1932)<br />No. 26 – G.B. Stern, Long-Lost Father: A Comedy (1933)<br />No. 27 – Temple Thurston, Discord (1933)<br />No. 28 – M.P. Shiel, Say Au R’voir But Not Goodbye (1933)<br />No. 29 – Cecily Sidgwick, Poverty and Riches (1933)<br />No. 30 – John Joy Bell, The Women (1933)<br />No. 31 – Winifed Graham, Slightly Imperfect (1933)<br />No. 32 – Dion Clayton Calthrop, The Sentimental Cynic (1933)Patrick Murthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08103905929956454199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-75179741358138348442016-05-16T16:09:48.944-07:002016-05-16T16:09:48.944-07:00I was interested! But I've just checked the li...I was interested! But I've just checked the library catalogue and, apart from the obvious two - which I've already read - the only one they've got is Royal Borough, which seems to be a history. Maybe one day in a charity shop if I'm lucky!maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13955194101659665925noreply@blogger.com