tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post6983769933892973330..comments2024-03-17T19:12:20.596-07:00Comments on FURROWED MIDDLEBROW: Belated Happy New Year and the shell of a future listFurrowed Middlebrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-81766909378904708492018-05-09T04:44:58.907-07:002018-05-09T04:44:58.907-07:00Your blog is amazing! What fun! I will be back, de...Your blog is amazing! What fun! I will be back, definitely. —Nina<br /><br />May I suggest some American women for inclusion:<br /><br />Harriette Ashbrook - see http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7929950/Ashbrook%2C%20Harriette<br /><br />Gwen Bristow - Plantation Trilogy, Jubilee Trail, etc., plus a couple mysteries with husband Bruce Manning. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/5907/<br /><br />Ruth Alberta Brown - At the Little Brown House (1913)<br /><br />Margaret Carpenter- Experiment Perilous https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Seymour_Carpenter<br /><br />Maureen Daly—Seventeenth Summer (1948). Wife of crime writer William P. McGivern.<br />https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Daly<br /><br />Marietta Holley—published two Samantha books after 1910. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietta_Holley<br /><br />Elizabeth Hughes Holloway published Cobweb House in 1931. http://hermes.lib.olemiss.edu/mystery/exhibit.asp?display=9<br /><br />Veronica Parker Johns, Murder by the Day (1953)<br />http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7930861/Johns%2C%20Veronica%20Parker<br /><br />Lange Lewis, The Birthday Murder (1945), Meat for Murder (1943)<br />http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7930948/Lewis%2C%20Lange<br /><br />Elisabeth Sutton, Dead Fingers (1918) - maybe American?<br /><br />Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs (1915)<br />https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Webster<br /><br />Anna Mary Wells, Murderer’s Choice (1943)<br />http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7932442/Wells%2C%20Anna%20Mary<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-38072156662638545352018-03-09T14:49:44.267-08:002018-03-09T14:49:44.267-08:00I am definitely intrigued, Constance. Thank you f...I am definitely intrigued, Constance. Thank you for letting me know about her!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-14915330900049886412018-03-09T14:48:35.855-08:002018-03-09T14:48:35.855-08:00Thank you, Tanya, and welcome! Do let me know if ...Thank you, Tanya, and welcome! Do let me know if you think of others I've missed so far.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-87971071454378356962018-03-07T12:56:26.997-08:002018-03-07T12:56:26.997-08:00Scott, it occurs to me you should also consider Ma...Scott, it occurs to me you should also consider Marian Cockrell (1909-99), screenwriter and author of the cult children's book Shadow Castle, as well as several adult novels, of which my favorite is The Revolt of Sarah Perkins. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168359/CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-5267695562552475172018-02-07T17:50:44.228-08:002018-02-07T17:50:44.228-08:00I just discovered this site and after reading this...I just discovered this site and after reading this particular post I feel like I've stumbled upon a group of kindred spirits. I've been an avid old-book-reader for many years and the books in my bookcases are almost all by women writers and were published between the late 19th c. and the mid-1960s. I was thrilled to see Jessamyn West, Gladys Hasty Carroll, Shirley Watkins, Betty Cavanna, and Lavinia R. Davis listed here.<br /><br />I feel like a kid in a candy store and am looking forward to researching the authors listed who I've never heard of! Thank you! Tanyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01281226510843921072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-37989407585288829862018-01-20T14:42:40.662-08:002018-01-20T14:42:40.662-08:00This is wonderful Julia! For some reason, I had n...This is wonderful Julia! For some reason, I had no idea that Beverly Cleary would have started early enough to include here, but I don't know why, as there were many of her books in my elementary school in the early 1970s, so clearly she had been writing for a while. And I also just looked up BJ Chute to see the connection to Marchette Chute who IS included on the list--sisters! Who knew? (Well, you, probably, but not me.) Excited to check out the other authors you mention too. Thanks for your help, and keep the suggestions coming!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-71574941337876617742018-01-20T14:37:54.710-08:002018-01-20T14:37:54.710-08:00Thanks again, Constance! This is wonderful inform...Thanks again, Constance! This is wonderful information. How interesting about Daisy Neumann/Newman--I've always meant to read Now That April's There as well. Can't wait to explore these authors in more depth!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-3510594139975131642018-01-20T14:27:22.283-08:002018-01-20T14:27:22.283-08:00Thank you, Constance, this is amazing! A few migh...Thank you, Constance, this is amazing! A few might not fit my dates, but many of them do and I'm delighted to have the info about them. Although she doesn't fit the list, I have always sort of halfway meant to read Hobomok, and now you've piqued my interest in it again.<br /><br />I'm ashamed to say I had never heard of malt shop authors or malt shop romances (which Julia also mentions below), but I am looking forward to exploring them.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-47209158069344832072018-01-20T14:23:21.290-08:002018-01-20T14:23:21.290-08:00Clearly I am a glutton for punishment, Susan, but ...Clearly I am a glutton for punishment, Susan, but we already knew that! Believe me, I have thought of Canada and been tempted. Perhaps in the future. Or if you decide to take the plunge, let me know and I can give you a fair number of names from my database... :-)Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-76611620102003391542018-01-20T14:22:08.725-08:002018-01-20T14:22:08.725-08:00Thank you, Liz! Oh, do read Lincoln in the Bardo!...Thank you, Liz! Oh, do read Lincoln in the Bardo! It's quite unconventional, but so so wonderful. I read a library copy, but just last week ordered a copy of my own to re-read and keep for my shelves.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-51650170693058100362018-01-20T14:20:42.272-08:002018-01-20T14:20:42.272-08:00Thanks, Karen! Winter Wheat is one of several new...Thanks, Karen! Winter Wheat is one of several new TBR books that have come out of this list. I seem to be a masochist when it comes to torturing myself with an impossibly long TBR!<br /><br />Weren't the Vermeers gorgeous? And one of the other paintings really caught my eye as well, though I have forgotten the name, of course. Snobby or not, I was thrilled to have been able to gaze at the paintings with almost no one else around.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-19605730464051840032018-01-20T14:16:12.973-08:002018-01-20T14:16:12.973-08:00Thanks, Jerri. Yes, Wilder of course, and I'v...Thanks, Jerri. Yes, Wilder of course, and I've just realized that somehow although her name had already come up in my research, I managed to leave Wilder's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, off of this list. I was fascinated to learn that, quite apart from her apparent collaboration with her mother on the Little House books, Lane wrote several novels of her own in the 1920s and 1930s, so clearly belongs on the list.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-81476768154804287422018-01-20T14:12:34.815-08:002018-01-20T14:12:34.815-08:00Thanks, Kat! I've always meant to read both o...Thanks, Kat! I've always meant to read both of those authors, but never have, so I am noting your recommendation.Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-67024636515661084342018-01-20T14:11:25.133-08:002018-01-20T14:11:25.133-08:00Not a bad number at all, Veronica, and I love that...Not a bad number at all, Veronica, and I love that your first instinct was (as mine would have been) to add them up!Furrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-41945204952220255292018-01-20T14:10:04.608-08:002018-01-20T14:10:04.608-08:00Comment from Julia, which Blogger was too cranky t...Comment from Julia, which Blogger was too cranky to allow her to post:<br /><br /><br />Happy New Year! Best wishes to you and Andy, and glad you had a nice break! When I read your latest post, I thought how funny it was you just couldn't NOT do the American list. You may do all the other English speaking countries yet! I'm assuming the rules for the new American list are the same as the Original British List. That is, 1910-1960's, and longer children's books or young adult, but not picture books. Even people such as Beverly Cleary would count under those rules, so it's going to be quite the list as well. You'll have quite a few maltshop authors like Janet Lambert, Betty Cavanna, and Rosamond Du Jardin. https://www.lib.umn.edu/clrc/hess-collection/girls_series is a good resource for that kind of thing. Two authors that would count are on my own TBR list, Greenwillow by BJ Chute and Moonset by Margaret Ellsworth Gruen. I have very little information on the Gruen book, but somehow read that it was about an eccentric theatrical family on the internet, where, I don't even remember, but currently have it ILL. There are so many middlebrow gems, time for me to dive in and discover more again!<br /><br /><br />And a follow-up from Julia re the Gruen book mentioned above:<br /><br /><br />https://books.google.com/books?id=ekSsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=gruen+moonset&source=bl&ots=lQ4uBpTTLy&sig=DGRNdURCvZqSfYazboGs84u-29I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYnZCVu-fYAhVHvVMKHbbhCSUQ6AEIVzAP#v=onepage&q=gruen%20moonset&f=false<br /><br />Must have been here for the Gruen, but I keep thinking I also read a Kirkus review. Kirkus seems to have pretty accurate reviews, and an archive of older material that covers lots of old middlebrowFurrowed Middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12065110409019861653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-56624868384316602642018-01-19T19:31:44.194-08:002018-01-19T19:31:44.194-08:00Comments Re Authors You Listed
Irwin, Inez (shoul...Comments Re Authors You Listed<br /><br />Irwin, Inez (should be Haynes, not Haines; my mother was a big Maida fan so I collected them all, plus at least one of her adult novels)<br /><br />Keyes, Frances Parkinson (Her books are extremely dated but I am a fan, especially of Came a Cavalier and Crescent Carnival; I regularly send people to visit her home in New Orleans, now a museum. I suspect I would not have liked her in real life, however, as she was a big adversary of Eleanor Roosevelt.)<br />http://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/04/archives/frances-parkinson-keyes-dies-writer-and-washington-hostess-senators.html<br /><br />Judson, Clara Ingram (author of the Mary Jane books, the first chapter books I read. I have them all in a box in the attic, hand-me-downs from my grandmother and my mother that were surprisingly memorable; too fragile to lend, you will need to stop by)<br /><br />Malvern, Gladys (author of YA historical fiction, a few bios, and some contemporary fiction; I am a big fan and am delighted a number are back in print, especially Behold Your Queen, arguably her best book)<br /><br />Neumann, Daisy (she sometimes spells it Newman (just went to check my shelves). She was my mother’s housemother at Radcliffe in the 50s. Preachy but enjoyable.)<br /><br />Parrish, Anne ( I have my mother’s copy of Floating Island, which is a charming story about shipwrecked dolls but would now be considered controversial for its depiction of a black cook doll) <br /><br />Seaman, Augusta ( She usually used her middle or maiden name Huiell. She is one of very few children’s authors my grandmother admitted to enjoying. She liked to say she went from the Oz books to Flannery O’Connor. I tried to like them for her sake but I recall those I read as being very pedestrian. The one I remember best is The Vanishing Octant Mystery and that is only because the Octant everyone sought kept washing up on the beach, then tantalizingly disappearing.)<br />Born April 3, 1879<br />Died June 5, 1950<br /><br />Sorry so long! <br />CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-52544584465190125042018-01-19T19:30:50.287-08:002018-01-19T19:30:50.287-08:00Ambitious! But you thrive on that... You have se...Ambitious! But you thrive on that... You have several of my favorites: Lovelace, Thane, Vining, Malvern, Walden but I would suggest considering the following, unless their dates don’t work for you:<br /><br />Alcott, Louisa May<br /><br />Allee, Marjorie Hill (One of many authors I was introduced to by my mother. She was a Quaker, married to a zoologist, and among other things is noteworthy because her heroines were often interested in science.)<br />born June 2, 1890<br />died April 30, 1945<br /><br />Cavanna, Betty (Elizabeth) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/15/arts/betty-cavanna-92-author-for-teenagers.html<br />Born June 24, 1909, Camden, NJ<br />Died August 13, 2001, Vézelay, France<br />And did you see this article earlier this month? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/books/review/malt-shop-teen-romances.html I don’t know why she didn’t mention Janet Lambert!<br /><br />Child, Lydia Marie (Born Lydia Maria Francis. In addition to writing Over the River and Through the Woods, she is the author of Hobomok, one of the first historical novels written by a woman in America)<br />Born February 11, 1802<br />Died October 20, 1880<br /><br />Coolidge, Susan (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) (author of What Katy Did, and following books. Oddly, more popular in the UK than in the US)<br />born on January 29, 1835 Ohio<br />died April 9, 1905 Rhode Island<br /><br />Lambert, Janet (Like Gladys Malvern, an actress who turned to writing; as the wife of a military officer, she set many of her books in that world, which I found fascinating as a child. When I read The Dancing Bear (at your suggestion) I was reminded of Little Miss Atlas, in which teen Tippy Parrish goes to live in post WWII Germany when her father is stationed there.)<br /><br />L’Engle, Madeleine (Camp) (Happy I got to meet her once in NYC – that was a very long line!)<br />Born November 29, 1918<br />Died September 6, 2007<br /><br />LeGuin, Ursula (Kroeber)<br />Born: October 21, 1929, Berkeley, CA<br /><br />Leighton, Margaret Carver (author of the fabulous Judith of France and others, fiction and nonfiction)<br />Born: December 20, 1896, Oberlin, OH<br />Died: June 19, 1987, Santa Monica, CA<br /><br />[LeGuin, Leighton, and Irwin are all Radcliffe alumnae]<br /><br />Richards, Laura E. (Bestselling and prolific author in her day of Captain January, the Hildegarde books, and I used to live around the corner from where she grew up. She was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley, and was named after the famous Laura Bridgman. I have a nice collection of her work.)<br />Born February 27, 1850<br />Died January 14, 1943<br /><br />Webster, Jean (Author of Daddy Long Legs and Dear Enemy; neice of Twain; died too young.)<br />Born July 24, 1876<br />Died June 11, 1916<br />CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-66094424484918234772018-01-19T06:02:34.304-08:002018-01-19T06:02:34.304-08:00Welcome back, Scott. And, seriously? You're ...Welcome back, Scott. And, seriously? You're going ahead with this? Oh what a project.<br /><br />Every now and then I think, hmmm, maybe I could do that with Canadian authors. But then I think again. :^0Susan Dhttp://www.susandaly.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-36070360765032169612018-01-18T07:29:00.228-08:002018-01-18T07:29:00.228-08:00Exciting list! And you're back, hooray! What a...Exciting list! And you're back, hooray! What a lovely story about your trip. Although I haven't read Lincoln in the Bardo, I have transcribed two interviews with the author, so it was interesting for me to see the location, too. Happy list-making for 2018! LyzzyBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16398604923871095647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-42921442555756645172018-01-17T23:59:25.983-08:002018-01-17T23:59:25.983-08:00A new list! Happy to see Mildred Walker included, ...A new list! Happy to see Mildred Walker included, I really loved Winter Wheat. And I am glad you were able to see the Vermeer exhibit. I saw it in Paris and it was insanely crowded which took some of the enjoyment away. (Wow, that sounded really snobby. First world problems, right?)Karen K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13483190930383406559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-63145296019368771662018-01-17T11:12:57.569-08:002018-01-17T11:12:57.569-08:00What a challenging new project - US Furrowed Middl...What a challenging new project - US Furrowed Middlebrow. I am familiar with a few of these authors, especially Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose works made a big impact on me.<br /><br />JerriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-54306357196061669482018-01-16T19:30:53.344-08:002018-01-16T19:30:53.344-08:00I love Harriette Arnow and Bess Streeter Aldrich a...I love Harriette Arnow and Bess Streeter Aldrich and am thrilled to see them on the list!Kat at Thornfield Hall Reduxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12072257200234114171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595702824833504762.post-90028473880612266422018-01-16T14:41:56.635-08:002018-01-16T14:41:56.635-08:00I had read or have copies of books by 37 of these ...I had read or have copies of books by 37 of these authors. Looking forward to hearing more about them...Vronni's Style Meanderingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122302881528071270noreply@blogger.com