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41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a46072a27725", "title": "THE FURROWED MIDDLEBROW DOZEN 2025", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-furrowed-middlebrow-dozen-2025.html", "published_at": "2025-12-20T10:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a460734d4121", "title": "An intriguing digression: JORGE LUIS BORGES, Professor Borges (c1966)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2025/09/an-intriguing-digression-jorge-luis.html", "published_at": "2025-09-08T11:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a460737ace4d", "title": "Safe and sound", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2025/09/safe-and-sound.html", "published_at": "2025-09-05T13:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a46073b95806", "title": "(A poor substitute for a) Furrowed Middlebrow Dozen 2024", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-poor-substitute-for-furrowed.html", "published_at": "2025-08-05T15:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a46074676241", "title": "A genuine thank you, and the news!", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-genuine-thank-you-and-news.html", "published_at": "2025-07-11T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a46074edac22", "title": "A particularly à propos review: ROSE MACAULAY, They Went to Portugal (1946)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-particularly-propos-review-rose.html", "published_at": "2025-06-29T19:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a460756d8e4f", "title": "Happy Release Day for FM97!", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/08/happy-release-day-for-fm97.html", "published_at": "2024-08-05T12:30:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607664cd1b", "title": "*** Breaking news! ***", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/05/breaking-news.html", "published_at": "2024-05-21T17:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a460771ab34e", "title": "Highlights of the 2024 update (4 of 4)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/04/highlights-of-2024-update-4-of-4.html", "published_at": "2024-04-09T21:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a46077ef137f", "title": "Highlights of the 2024 update (3 of 4)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/03/highlights-of-2024-update-3-of-4.html", "published_at": "2024-03-29T17:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a460786766cd", "title": "Highlights of the 2024 update (2 of 4)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/03/highlights-of-2024-update-2-of-4.html", "published_at": "2024-03-15T18:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a460788422d2", "title": "Highlights of the 2024 update (1 of 4)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/03/highlights-of-2024-update-1-of-4.html", "published_at": "2024-03-10T02:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a46078b94c78", "title": "\"I intend to count for quite a long time yet\": MRS. PHILIP CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY, The Missing Piece (1927)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/02/i-intend-to-count-for-quite-long-time.html", "published_at": "2024-02-23T23:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a460799a645a", "title": "Detective on holiday: E. H. CLEMENTS, Bright Intervals (1940)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/02/detective-on-holiday-e-h-clements.html", "published_at": "2024-02-16T21:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a46079ed0a08", "title": "\"If she had not been careful\": MONICA REDLICH, Cheap Return (1934)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/01/if-she-had-not-been-careful-monica.html", "published_at": "2024-01-27T21:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607aaeb9f8", "title": "\"Humiliatingly Victorian\": AGNES ROSEMARY COOPER & MARY WELLER (as RAMSAY BELL), The Lake of Ghosts (1940)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/01/humiliatingly-victorian-agnes-rosemary.html", "published_at": "2024-01-14T21:06:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607ba7951c", "title": "PAULINE WARWICK, Diana's Daughter (1931) (aka The Girdle of Venus)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2024/01/pauline-warwick-dianas-daughter-1931.html", "published_at": "2024-01-08T14:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607c53b02c", "title": "THE FURROWED MIDDLEBROW DOZEN 2023", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-furrowed-middlebrow-dozen-2023.html", "published_at": "2023-12-31T19:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607d376d47", "title": "\"You're nothing but a mean beast!\": MARGARET MASTERMAN, Gentlemen's Daughters (1931)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/youre-nothing-but-mean-beast-margaret.html", "published_at": "2023-12-22T23:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607d651be7", "title": "\"You could trot a mouse on it\": D. M. LARGE, The Open Arms (1933)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/you-could-trot-mouse-on-it-d-m-large.html", "published_at": "2023-12-17T01:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607e22a1b1", "title": "BETTY TRASK (as ANN DELAMAIN), Mabel Has Mink (1950) & Merry Widows Waltz (1943)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/betty-trask-as-ann-delamain-mabel-has.html", "published_at": "2023-12-09T20:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607e60a9a8", "title": "Nothing but a sense of humor: JANE BIRD, By Accident (1935)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/12/nothing-but-sense-of-humor-jane-bird-by.html", "published_at": "2023-12-03T17:50:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607f4ed552", "title": "\"You're just the very person\": ANN STAFFORD & JANE OLIVER, Cuckoo in June (1935)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/11/youre-just-very-person-ann-stafford.html", "published_at": "2023-11-27T13:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a4607ffcb1ff", "title": "\"I've had a lot of bother with you myself\": ELLA MONCKTON, August in Avilion (1940)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/11/ive-had-lot-of-bother-with-you-myself.html", "published_at": "2023-11-17T15:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0877a-bd12-7318-9461-a460806ce4c4", "title": "Highlights of the “lost” update (2 of 2)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/11/highlights-of-lost-update-2-of-2.html", "published_at": "2023-11-06T19:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497a9ecf3e55", "title": "Highlights of the “lost” update (1 of 2)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/11/highlights-of-lost-update-1-of-2.html", "published_at": "2023-11-01T13:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497a9f416b82", "title": "\"Anything is possible\": NOREEN BOND, Hide Away (1936) & Take Care (1938)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/10/anything-is-possible-noreen-bond-hide.html", "published_at": "2023-10-26T14:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497a9f88e9cb", "title": "THE GROWN-UP SCHOOL STORY LIST", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-grown-up-school-story-list.html", "published_at": "2023-10-20T20:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497a9fa488a8", "title": "Gentlemen prefer chorus girls: EMERY BONETT, A Girl Must Live (1936)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/10/gentlemen-prefer-chorus-girls-emery.html", "published_at": "2023-10-17T15:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa07f3b72", "title": "Back (in at least one sense)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/10/back-in-at-least-one-sense.html", "published_at": "2023-10-10T18:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa0a8ba5d", "title": "“No useful purpose would be served by remaining in a vertical posture”: HUMPHREY PAKINGTON, Four in Family (1932)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/08/no-useful-purpose-would-be-served-by.html", "published_at": "2023-08-13T18:03:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa14ef301", "title": "\"A shattering present\": KITTY BARNE, Mother at Large (1938)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-shattering-present-kitty-barne-mother.html", "published_at": "2023-08-04T01:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa213caaf", "title": "\"So coolly silent, so vast and beautiful\": KATHERINE DUNNING, The Spring Begins (1934)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/07/so-coolly-silent-so-vast-and-beautiful.html", "published_at": "2023-07-28T15:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa218358d", "title": "A literary conundrum?: ANONYMOUS (but clearly E. M. DELAFIELD), The Bazalgettes (1935)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-literary-conundrum-anonymous-but.html", "published_at": "2023-07-21T23:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa2a1c05c", "title": "\"They sinned. Need one say more?\": ELEANOR FARJEON, Miss Granby's Secret (1941)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/07/they-sinned-need-one-say-more-eleanor.html", "published_at": "2023-07-13T15:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa2ad4fb5", "title": "JOYCE DENNYS, Economy Must Be Our Watchword (1932)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/07/joyce-dennys-economy-must-be-our.html", "published_at": "2023-07-05T23:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa3895248", "title": "What might have been: Henrietta and others", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/06/what-might-have-been-henrietta-and.html", "published_at": "2023-06-29T17:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa47999b5", "title": "The Mystery of the Missing Middlebrow", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-mystery-of-missing-middlebrow.html", "published_at": "2023-05-28T15:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa54122d1", "title": "The Ides of March", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-ides-of-march.html", "published_at": "2023-03-11T16:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa543b20c", "title": "\"Murder will be committed in this house\": MABEL BARNES-GRUNDY, The Two Miss Spreckles (1946)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/02/murder-will-be-committed-in-this-house.html", "published_at": "2023-02-10T16:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa5baf2b4", "title": "Gung-ho business women: MADGE SMITH, Jam Every Day (1957) & CLOTILDE GRAVES (as RICHARD DEHAN), Maids in a Market Garden (1894)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/01/gung-ho-business-women-madge-smith-jam.html", "published_at": "2023-01-13T16:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa6397424", "title": "\"Steal it out of the chaos\": DOROTHY LAMBERT, The Stolen Days (1940)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2023/01/steal-it-out-of-chaos-dorothy-lambert.html", "published_at": "2023-01-08T17:35:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa6b9f91a", "title": "THE FURROWED MIDDLEBROW DOZEN 2022", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-furrowed-middlebrow-dozen-2022.html", "published_at": "2022-12-31T16:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa78d24ca", "title": "A miss is as good as—oh, whatever: Two disappointments", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-miss-is-as-good-asoh-whatever-two.html", "published_at": "2022-12-22T16:38:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa7dd0cdf", "title": "\"Sheer waste of a fowl?\": DOROTHY LAMBERT, Birds on the Wing (1943)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/12/sheer-waste-of-fowl-dorothy-lambert.html", "published_at": "2022-12-16T15:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa7e36005", "title": "\"We've actually been bombed, Mummy! Isn't it marvelous?\": DOROTHY LAMBERT, Staying Put (1941)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/12/weve-actually-been-bombed-mummy-isnt-it.html", "published_at": "2022-12-11T21:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa832e995", "title": "\"We will now knock our heads together\": MARGARET RIVERS LARMINIE & JANE LANGSLOW, Gory Knight (1937)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/12/we-will-now-knock-our-heads-together.html", "published_at": "2022-12-02T17:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd44-7130-9ddd-497aa8732cbd", "title": "\"Nothing short of turning a hose on her\": DOROTHY LAMBERT, Redferne M.F.H. (1929) and Aunts in Arcady (1930)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/11/nothing-short-of-turning-hose-on-her.html", "published_at": "2022-11-25T17:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd45-7158-a90f-1c6b5e4b086c", "title": "\"Cut off their heads now and then\": F. M. MAYOR (as MARY STRAFFORD), Mrs. Hammond's Children (1901)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/11/cut-off-their-heads-now-and-then-f-m.html", "published_at": "2022-11-18T15:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c51c-dd45-7158-a90f-1c6b5ec5e9c6", "title": "Delightful novel, dire title: DOROTHY LAMBERT, All I Desire (1936)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/11/delightful-novel-dire-title-dorothy.html", "published_at": "2022-11-11T18:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362f7a559cd", "title": "What I did on holiday (2022 edition)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/11/what-i-did-on-holiday-2022-edition.html", "published_at": "2022-11-05T21:16:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362f7c0d848", "title": "Apologies, condolences, and OMG!", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/09/apologies-condolences-and-omg.html", "published_at": "2022-09-18T16:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362f89f47ad", "title": "\"You'll be the talk of the town\": ANITA CAMPBELL, Shades of Lil! (1957)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/08/youll-be-talk-of-town-anita-campbell.html", "published_at": "2022-08-27T17:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362f8dd7732", "title": "\"People whom one knows will not say 'serviette'\": KITTY VINCENT, Lipstick (1925)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/08/people-whom-one-knows-will-not-say.html", "published_at": "2022-08-05T17:44:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362f923abbf", "title": "PUBLICATION DAY APPROACHETH!: Elizabeth Fair and Susan Scarlett (Noel Streatfeild) titles almost here!", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/07/publication-day-approacheth-elizabeth.html", "published_at": "2022-07-31T02:17:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362f9b94d20", "title": "The Seventh Commandment: ANN STAFFORD & JANE OLIVER, Reluctant Adonis (1938)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-seventh-commandment-ann-stafford.html", "published_at": "2022-07-22T20:52:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362fa01cde4", "title": "Recommended dosage: JOYCE DENNYS, Mrs Dose, the Doctor's Wife (1930), Repeated Doses (1931), and The Over-Dose (1933)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/07/recommended-dosage-joyce-dennys-mrs.html", "published_at": "2022-07-15T17:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362fa0e39ff", "title": "We interrupt this program... (and a Facebook page!)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/07/we-interrupt-this-program-and-facebook.html", "published_at": "2022-07-13T22:57:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362fa9ebc15", "title": "\"When I was young, and had no sense\": SYBIL RYALL (later BOLITHO), A Fiddle for Eighteen Pence (1927)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/07/when-i-was-young-and-had-no-sense-sybil.html", "published_at": "2022-07-03T16:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362fb1334fe", "title": "\"Land's End?\" he echoed. \"It's more likely to be No Man's Land\": LEILA MACKINLAY, Woman at the Wheel (1940)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/06/lands-end-he-echoed-its-more-likely-to.html", "published_at": "2022-06-26T18:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362fbd04a4b", "title": "The Scarlett Woman, Part 5: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Ten Way Street (1940) & Sally-Ann (1939)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-scarlett-woman-part-5-noel.html", "published_at": "2022-06-17T17:10:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362fc94eb9a", "title": "\"As a femme fatale she was a disappointment\": JOYCE DENNYS, And Then There Was One (1983)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/06/as-femme-fatale-she-was-disappointment.html", "published_at": "2022-06-10T18:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362fd4f1e49", "title": "\"T for tiresome, S for stupid, D for dull and B for bad-tempered\": ANN STAFFORD & JANE OLIVER, Cook Wanted (1933)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/06/t-for-tiresome-s-for-stupid-d-for-dull.html", "published_at": "2022-06-03T15:59:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362fdc7e691", "title": "COVER REVEAL: 13 new titles by Elizabeth Fair (!!) and Noel Streatfeild writing as Susan Scarlett, coming in August!", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/05/cover-reveal-13-new-titles-by-elizabeth.html", "published_at": "2022-05-21T17:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362fe912745", "title": "\"The boned corsets of the mind\": KATHLEEN FARRELL, The Common Touch (1959)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-boned-corsets-of-mind-kathleen.html", "published_at": "2022-05-14T15:29:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362feae9170", "title": "\"Go forth and see the sights\": OONA H. BALL (as BARBARA BURKE), Barbara Goes to Oxford (1907)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/05/go-forth-and-see-sights-oona-h-ball-as.html", "published_at": "2022-05-06T15:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362ff0efae9", "title": "'Unfortunately they're already here': ROSE ALLATINI (as EUNICE BUCKLEY), Family from Vienna (1941)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/04/unfortunately-theyre-already-here-rose.html", "published_at": "2022-04-29T16:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362ff45fb03", "title": "Starke raving mad: KATHLEEN MACKENZIE, The Starke Sisters (1963), Charlotte (1964), & Kelford Dig (1966)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/04/starke-raving-mad-kathleen-mackenzie.html", "published_at": "2022-04-22T14:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362ffc2cf30", "title": "SURPRISE!! (maybe?): Twelve more Furrowed Middlebrow titles from Dean Street Press, coming August 2022", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/04/surprise-maybe-twelve-more-furrowed.html", "published_at": "2022-04-13T14:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7362ffe63168", "title": "A \"fine\" romance: JANE SETH-SMITH, Suite in Four Flats (1957)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/04/a-fine-romance-jane-seth-smith-suite-in.html", "published_at": "2022-04-08T15:19:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7363008de3c2", "title": "The Scarlett Woman, Part 4: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Under the Rainbow (1942) & Peter and Paul (1940)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-scarlett-woman-part-4-noel.html", "published_at": "2022-04-01T15:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-736300ba0e0c", "title": "OMG! OMG!: Coming this summer as a Furrowed Middlebrow book from Dean Street Press", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/03/omg-omg-coming-this-summer-as-furrowed.html", "published_at": "2022-03-25T14:58:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7363013d2a30", "title": "Hold on to your hats!: Big announcement coming tomorrow...", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/03/hold-on-to-your-hats-big-announcement.html", "published_at": "2022-03-24T16:27:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-73630174948d", "title": "The Scarlett Woman, Part 3: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Babbacombe's (1941) & Poppies for England (1948)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-scarlett-woman-part-3-noel.html", "published_at": "2022-03-18T14:37:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c527-fb94-7270-a9ae-7363017faf6a", "title": "\"Perhaps not only the house destroyed\": DOROTHY CLEWES, I Came to a Wood (1956)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/03/perhaps-not-only-house-destroyed.html", "published_at": "2022-03-11T15:53:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb913ab4a6", "title": "\"Not for the likes of you\": VIOLET TREFUSIS, Prelude to Misadventure (1942)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/03/not-for-likes-of-you-violet-trefusis.html", "published_at": "2022-03-04T16:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb914e26bc", "title": "The Scarlett Woman, Part 2: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Murder While You Work (1944) & Pirouette (1948)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-scarlett-woman-part-2-noel.html", "published_at": "2022-02-25T15:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb91583c7f", "title": "The Scarlett Woman: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Clothes-Pegs (1939) & The Man in the Dark (1940)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-scarlett-woman-noel-streatfeild-as.html", "published_at": "2022-02-18T15:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb91c294c4", "title": "MOLLY CLAVERING (as Marian Moffatt), Welcome Stranger (1955) (aka Like One of the Family)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/02/molly-clavering-as-marian-moffatt.html", "published_at": "2022-02-11T15:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb91f96f1c", "title": "\"The sea could wash all malison away\": E. H. YOUNG, Caravan Island (1940)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-sea-could-wash-all-malison-away-e-h.html", "published_at": "2022-02-04T15:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb92ec9805", "title": "Miss-ing in action: PATRICIA TOMS & JULIA TRUITT YENNI", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/01/miss-ing-in-action-patricia-toms-julia.html", "published_at": "2022-01-28T16:12:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb933d6366", "title": "'Hellish dark and smells of cheese': ISOBEL STRACHEY, Suzanna (1956)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/01/hellish-dark-and-smells-of-cheese.html", "published_at": "2022-01-22T17:08:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb93f46b0e", "title": "'Maud had been a thoroughly nice, if elderly, girl before she had taken up bull-fighting': VIOLET TREFUSIS, Hunt the Slipper (1937)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/01/maud-had-been-thoroughly-nice-if.html", "published_at": "2022-01-14T03:26:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb943c28a3", "title": "THEY'RE HERE!: 11 new D. E. Stevenson titles from Dean Street Press", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2022/01/theyre-here-11-new-d-e-stevenson-titles.html", "published_at": "2022-01-03T13:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb94c7b00c", "title": "The Furrowed Middlebrow Dozen 2021", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-furrowed-middlebrow-dozen-2021.html", "published_at": "2021-12-31T00:31:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb95010838", "title": "The UN-furrowed Dozen", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-un-furrowed-dozen.html", "published_at": "2021-12-24T18:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9591cc52", "title": "\"That monkish bed\": VIOLET TREFUSIS, Broderie Anglaise (1935) & From Dusk to Dawn (1972)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/12/that-monkish-bed-violet-trefusis.html", "published_at": "2021-12-17T16:04:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9687857f", "title": "\"[S]he was behaving towards him as a man does to a mistress\": MONICA STIRLING, Some Darling Folly (1955) & Adventurers Please Abstain (1952)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/12/she-was-behaving-towards-him-as-man.html", "published_at": "2021-12-10T16:39:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb96e87af4", "title": "\"Them evacuants\": D. M. [DOROTHY MABEL] LARGE, The Quiet Place (1941)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/12/them-evacuants-d-m-dorothy-mabel-large.html", "published_at": "2021-12-03T16:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb97ba48eb", "title": "\"Short of locking up her sons\": VIOLET TREFUSIS, Pirates at Play (1950)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/11/short-of-locking-up-her-sons-violet.html", "published_at": "2021-11-28T22:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9838066a", "title": "\"It is very awkward to feel you have driven someone to her death\": IVY COMPTON-BURNETT, Daughters and Sons (1937)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/11/it-is-very-awkward-to-feel-you-have.html", "published_at": "2021-11-19T16:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb98f9d7d5", "title": "\"My postwar face\": MONICA STIRLING, Ladies with a Unicorn (1953)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/11/my-postwar-face-monica-stirling-ladies.html", "published_at": "2021-11-12T15:31:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb99d43d80", "title": "\"She lost her petals one by one\": VIOLET TREFUSIS, Tandem (1933)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/11/she-lost-her-petals-one-by-one-violet.html", "published_at": "2021-11-07T06:18:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9aac00af", "title": "\"No memories are clearer ... than those one has invented\": MONICA STIRLING, The Sniper in the Heart (1960)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/11/no-memories-are-clearer-than-those-one.html", "published_at": "2021-11-02T21:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9b3fdcbb", "title": "“The whole apartment reeked of approaching drama”: MONICA STIRLING, Lovers Aren’t Company (1949)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-whole-apartment-reeked-of.html", "published_at": "2021-10-27T15:22:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9c1272d7", "title": "'It's rather like an English village': FELICITY SHAW, Sun Trap (1958)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/10/its-rather-like-english-village.html", "published_at": "2021-10-08T16:33:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9cde89c7", "title": "\"We all have our troubles\": MONICA STIRLING, Journeys We Shall Never Make (1957)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/10/we-all-have-our-troubles-monica.html", "published_at": "2021-10-01T14:36:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9d47742f", "title": "\"The plot thickens\": H. S. (HILDA STEWART) REID, Emily (1933)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-plot-thickens-h-s-hilda-stewart.html", "published_at": "2021-09-24T15:21:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9da9b8e3", "title": "“The plants were silent”: MONICA STIRLING, The Summer of a Dormouse (1967)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-plants-were-silent-monica-stirling.html", "published_at": "2021-09-17T15:13:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c533-4963-70e1-84cc-6cdb9e50e733", "title": "Empire builders of the island race: FELICITY SHAW, The Unhappy Exiles (1956)", "url": "https://furrowedmiddlebrow.blogspot.com/2021/09/empire-builders-of-island-race-felicity.html", "published_at": "2021-09-10T14:28:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2025

THE FURROWED MIDDLEBROW DOZEN 2025original ↗
20 Dec 2025
An intriguing digression: JORGE LUIS BORGES, Professor Borges (c1966)original ↗
8 Sept 2025
Safe and soundoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2025
(A poor substitute for a) Furrowed Middlebrow Dozen 2024original ↗
5 Aug 2025
A genuine thank you, and the news!original ↗
11 Jul 2025
A particularly à propos review: ROSE MACAULAY, They Went to Portugal (1946)original ↗
29 Jun 2025

2024

Happy Release Day for FM97!original ↗
5 Aug 2024
*** Breaking news! ***original ↗
21 May 2024
Highlights of the 2024 update (4 of 4)original ↗
9 Apr 2024
Highlights of the 2024 update (3 of 4)original ↗
29 Mar 2024
Highlights of the 2024 update (2 of 4)original ↗
15 Mar 2024
Highlights of the 2024 update (1 of 4)original ↗
10 Mar 2024
"I intend to count for quite a long time yet": MRS. PHILIP CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY, The Missing Piece (1927)original ↗
23 Feb 2024
Detective on holiday: E. H. CLEMENTS, Bright Intervals (1940)original ↗
16 Feb 2024
"If she had not been careful": MONICA REDLICH, Cheap Return (1934)original ↗
27 Jan 2024
"Humiliatingly Victorian": AGNES ROSEMARY COOPER & MARY WELLER (as RAMSAY BELL), The Lake of Ghosts (1940)original ↗
14 Jan 2024
PAULINE WARWICK, Diana's Daughter (1931) (aka The Girdle of Venus)original ↗
8 Jan 2024

2023

THE FURROWED MIDDLEBROW DOZEN 2023original ↗
31 Dec 2023
"You're nothing but a mean beast!": MARGARET MASTERMAN, Gentlemen's Daughters (1931)original ↗
22 Dec 2023
"You could trot a mouse on it": D. M. LARGE, The Open Arms (1933)original ↗
17 Dec 2023
BETTY TRASK (as ANN DELAMAIN), Mabel Has Mink (1950) & Merry Widows Waltz (1943)original ↗
9 Dec 2023
Nothing but a sense of humor: JANE BIRD, By Accident (1935)original ↗
3 Dec 2023
"You're just the very person": ANN STAFFORD & JANE OLIVER, Cuckoo in June (1935)original ↗
27 Nov 2023
"I've had a lot of bother with you myself": ELLA MONCKTON, August in Avilion (1940)original ↗
17 Nov 2023
Highlights of the “lost” update (2 of 2)original ↗
6 Nov 2023
Highlights of the “lost” update (1 of 2)original ↗
1 Nov 2023
"Anything is possible": NOREEN BOND, Hide Away (1936) & Take Care (1938)original ↗
26 Oct 2023
THE GROWN-UP SCHOOL STORY LISToriginal ↗
20 Oct 2023
Gentlemen prefer chorus girls: EMERY BONETT, A Girl Must Live (1936)original ↗
17 Oct 2023
Back (in at least one sense)original ↗
10 Oct 2023
“No useful purpose would be served by remaining in a vertical posture”: HUMPHREY PAKINGTON, Four in Family (1932)original ↗
13 Aug 2023
"A shattering present": KITTY BARNE, Mother at Large (1938)original ↗
4 Aug 2023
"So coolly silent, so vast and beautiful": KATHERINE DUNNING, The Spring Begins (1934)original ↗
28 Jul 2023
A literary conundrum?: ANONYMOUS (but clearly E. M. DELAFIELD), The Bazalgettes (1935)original ↗
21 Jul 2023
"They sinned. Need one say more?": ELEANOR FARJEON, Miss Granby's Secret (1941)original ↗
13 Jul 2023
JOYCE DENNYS, Economy Must Be Our Watchword (1932)original ↗
5 Jul 2023
What might have been: Henrietta and othersoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2023
The Mystery of the Missing Middlebroworiginal ↗
28 May 2023
The Ides of Marchoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2023
"Murder will be committed in this house": MABEL BARNES-GRUNDY, The Two Miss Spreckles (1946)original ↗
10 Feb 2023
Gung-ho business women: MADGE SMITH, Jam Every Day (1957) & CLOTILDE GRAVES (as RICHARD DEHAN), Maids in a Market Garden (1894)original ↗
13 Jan 2023
"Steal it out of the chaos": DOROTHY LAMBERT, The Stolen Days (1940)original ↗
8 Jan 2023

2022

THE FURROWED MIDDLEBROW DOZEN 2022original ↗
31 Dec 2022
A miss is as good as—oh, whatever: Two disappointmentsoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2022
"Sheer waste of a fowl?": DOROTHY LAMBERT, Birds on the Wing (1943)original ↗
16 Dec 2022
"We've actually been bombed, Mummy! Isn't it marvelous?": DOROTHY LAMBERT, Staying Put (1941)original ↗
11 Dec 2022
"We will now knock our heads together": MARGARET RIVERS LARMINIE & JANE LANGSLOW, Gory Knight (1937)original ↗
2 Dec 2022
"Nothing short of turning a hose on her": DOROTHY LAMBERT, Redferne M.F.H. (1929) and Aunts in Arcady (1930)original ↗
25 Nov 2022
"Cut off their heads now and then": F. M. MAYOR (as MARY STRAFFORD), Mrs. Hammond's Children (1901)original ↗
18 Nov 2022
Delightful novel, dire title: DOROTHY LAMBERT, All I Desire (1936)original ↗
11 Nov 2022
What I did on holiday (2022 edition)original ↗
5 Nov 2022
Apologies, condolences, and OMG!original ↗
18 Sept 2022
"You'll be the talk of the town": ANITA CAMPBELL, Shades of Lil! (1957)original ↗
27 Aug 2022
"People whom one knows will not say 'serviette'": KITTY VINCENT, Lipstick (1925)original ↗
5 Aug 2022
PUBLICATION DAY APPROACHETH!: Elizabeth Fair and Susan Scarlett (Noel Streatfeild) titles almost here!original ↗
31 Jul 2022
The Seventh Commandment: ANN STAFFORD & JANE OLIVER, Reluctant Adonis (1938)original ↗
22 Jul 2022
Recommended dosage: JOYCE DENNYS, Mrs Dose, the Doctor's Wife (1930), Repeated Doses (1931), and The Over-Dose (1933)original ↗
15 Jul 2022
We interrupt this program... (and a Facebook page!)original ↗
13 Jul 2022
"When I was young, and had no sense": SYBIL RYALL (later BOLITHO), A Fiddle for Eighteen Pence (1927)original ↗
3 Jul 2022
"Land's End?" he echoed. "It's more likely to be No Man's Land": LEILA MACKINLAY, Woman at the Wheel (1940)original ↗
26 Jun 2022
The Scarlett Woman, Part 5: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Ten Way Street (1940) & Sally-Ann (1939)original ↗
17 Jun 2022
"As a femme fatale she was a disappointment": JOYCE DENNYS, And Then There Was One (1983)original ↗
10 Jun 2022
"T for tiresome, S for stupid, D for dull and B for bad-tempered": ANN STAFFORD & JANE OLIVER, Cook Wanted (1933)original ↗
3 Jun 2022
COVER REVEAL: 13 new titles by Elizabeth Fair (!!) and Noel Streatfeild writing as Susan Scarlett, coming in August!original ↗
21 May 2022
"The boned corsets of the mind": KATHLEEN FARRELL, The Common Touch (1959)original ↗
14 May 2022
"Go forth and see the sights": OONA H. BALL (as BARBARA BURKE), Barbara Goes to Oxford (1907)original ↗
6 May 2022
'Unfortunately they're already here': ROSE ALLATINI (as EUNICE BUCKLEY), Family from Vienna (1941)original ↗
29 Apr 2022
Starke raving mad: KATHLEEN MACKENZIE, The Starke Sisters (1963), Charlotte (1964), & Kelford Dig (1966)original ↗
22 Apr 2022
SURPRISE!! (maybe?): Twelve more Furrowed Middlebrow titles from Dean Street Press, coming August 2022original ↗
13 Apr 2022
A "fine" romance: JANE SETH-SMITH, Suite in Four Flats (1957)original ↗
8 Apr 2022
The Scarlett Woman, Part 4: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Under the Rainbow (1942) & Peter and Paul (1940)original ↗
1 Apr 2022
OMG! OMG!: Coming this summer as a Furrowed Middlebrow book from Dean Street Pressoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2022
Hold on to your hats!: Big announcement coming tomorrow...original ↗
24 Mar 2022
The Scarlett Woman, Part 3: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Babbacombe's (1941) & Poppies for England (1948)original ↗
18 Mar 2022
"Perhaps not only the house destroyed": DOROTHY CLEWES, I Came to a Wood (1956)original ↗
11 Mar 2022
"Not for the likes of you": VIOLET TREFUSIS, Prelude to Misadventure (1942)original ↗
4 Mar 2022
The Scarlett Woman, Part 2: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Murder While You Work (1944) & Pirouette (1948)original ↗
25 Feb 2022
The Scarlett Woman: NOEL STREATFEILD (as SUSAN SCARLETT), Clothes-Pegs (1939) & The Man in the Dark (1940)original ↗
18 Feb 2022
MOLLY CLAVERING (as Marian Moffatt), Welcome Stranger (1955) (aka Like One of the Family)original ↗
11 Feb 2022
"The sea could wash all malison away": E. H. YOUNG, Caravan Island (1940)original ↗
4 Feb 2022
Miss-ing in action: PATRICIA TOMS & JULIA TRUITT YENNIoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2022
'Hellish dark and smells of cheese': ISOBEL STRACHEY, Suzanna (1956)original ↗
22 Jan 2022
'Maud had been a thoroughly nice, if elderly, girl before she had taken up bull-fighting': VIOLET TREFUSIS, Hunt the Slipper (1937)original ↗
14 Jan 2022
THEY'RE HERE!: 11 new D. E. Stevenson titles from Dean Street Pressoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2022

2021

The Furrowed Middlebrow Dozen 2021original ↗
31 Dec 2021
The UN-furrowed Dozenoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2021
"That monkish bed": VIOLET TREFUSIS, Broderie Anglaise (1935) & From Dusk to Dawn (1972)original ↗
17 Dec 2021
"[S]he was behaving towards him as a man does to a mistress": MONICA STIRLING, Some Darling Folly (1955) & Adventurers Please Abstain (1952)original ↗
10 Dec 2021
"Them evacuants": D. M. [DOROTHY MABEL] LARGE, The Quiet Place (1941)original ↗
3 Dec 2021
"Short of locking up her sons": VIOLET TREFUSIS, Pirates at Play (1950)original ↗
28 Nov 2021
"It is very awkward to feel you have driven someone to her death": IVY COMPTON-BURNETT, Daughters and Sons (1937)original ↗
19 Nov 2021
"My postwar face": MONICA STIRLING, Ladies with a Unicorn (1953)original ↗
12 Nov 2021
"She lost her petals one by one": VIOLET TREFUSIS, Tandem (1933)original ↗
7 Nov 2021
"No memories are clearer ... than those one has invented": MONICA STIRLING, The Sniper in the Heart (1960)original ↗
2 Nov 2021
“The whole apartment reeked of approaching drama”: MONICA STIRLING, Lovers Aren’t Company (1949)original ↗
27 Oct 2021
'It's rather like an English village': FELICITY SHAW, Sun Trap (1958)original ↗
8 Oct 2021
"We all have our troubles": MONICA STIRLING, Journeys We Shall Never Make (1957)original ↗
1 Oct 2021
"The plot thickens": H. S. (HILDA STEWART) REID, Emily (1933)original ↗
24 Sept 2021
“The plants were silent”: MONICA STIRLING, The Summer of a Dormouse (1967)original ↗
17 Sept 2021
Empire builders of the island race: FELICITY SHAW, The Unhappy Exiles (1956)original ↗
10 Sept 2021
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