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Rachel Ferguson; Rachel Ferguson (primary author only) Author division. Rachel Ferguson is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Includes. Rachel Ferguson is composed of 3 names. You can examine and separate out names. Combine with. I haven't read any other Rachel Ferguson books yet, but do have a copy of A Footman for the Peacock. Reply Delete. Replies. Karen K. October 1, at AM. I really enjoyed Our Spoons Came From Woolworths. It's a quirky little read, quite different. Delete. Replies. Reply. A Footman for the Peacock Rachel Ferguson £ A Footman for the PeacockRachel Ferguson quantity. Add to basket. Controversial when first published in the early days of World War II, due to its treatment of a loathsome upper-crust family dodging wartime responsibility.
A Footman for the Peacock was received with lukewarm enthusiasm upon its publication early in the war. Though Rachel Ferguson was well-known by that time as a cutting satirist, the portrayal of the Roundelays as self-devoted shirkers of wartime duties grated just a bit too much on the sensibilities of reviewers, who suspected that Rachel Ferguson’s tongue was not quite as far in cheek as it should have been. A Footman for the Peacock By Rachel Ferguson Out now. A Furrowed Middlebrow book (an imprint of Dean Street Press). £ paperback, also available as an ebook. For more about this independent publisher and the imprint, visit: www.doorway.ru Rachel Ferguson will be familiar to fans of Persephone and Virago books. When A Footman for the Peacock first appeared in , Margery Allingham gave it what Elizabeth Maslen calls a "reproachful" review in Time and Tide. I haven't yet had a chance to locate the review in its entirety, but it's not hard to see that Ferguson's humorous approach to the war, including her loathsome aristocratic family's dodging of evacuees and lack of any concern whatsoever for the potential ravages of war, as well as their mocking critiques of government preparedness for the war.
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