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Ruby Ferguson (1899–1966)

Autor(a) de Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary

34+ Works 1,221 Membros 23 Críticas 3 Favorited

About the Author

Disambiguation Notice:

(eng) British children's book author Ruby Ferguson also published novels under the name R. C. Ashby.

Séries

Obras por Ruby Ferguson

Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary (1937) 211 exemplares
Jill's Gymkhana (1949) 133 exemplares
A Stable for Jill (1951) 109 exemplares
Jill Has Two Ponies (1954) 103 exemplares
Jill Enjoys Her Ponies (1954) 97 exemplares
Jill's Riding Club (1956) 95 exemplares
Jill and the Perfect Pony (1959) 91 exemplares
Pony Jobs for Jill (1956) 88 exemplares
Jill's Pony Trek (1962) 84 exemplares
Rosettes for Jill (1957) 74 exemplares
Apricot Sky (1952) 46 exemplares
He Arrived at Dusk (1933) 23 exemplares
Death on Tiptoe (1931) 19 exemplares
Children at The Shop (1967) 7 exemplares

Associated Works

The Queen's Book of the Red Cross (1939) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Ferguson, Ruby
Nome legal
Ferguson, Ruby Constance Annie Ashby
Outros nomes
Ashby, Rubie Constance Annie (birth name)
Ashby, R. C. (pen name)
Ferguson, Ruby (pen name)
Data de nascimento
1899-07-28
Data de falecimento
1966-11-11
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, England, UK
Locais de residência
Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Reeth, North Yorkshire, England, UK
Educação
Bradford Girls' Grammar School
University of Oxford (St Hilda's College)
Ocupações
novelist
reviewer
secretary
pony book author
Nota de desambiguação
British children's book author Ruby Ferguson also published novels under the name R. C. Ashby.

Membros

Críticas

The ending felt really sudden and not exactly realistic, but it was sweet and I enjoyed the moments of humor too. Very evocative if you’re interested in the West Highlands of Scotland, particularly the Isle of Skye!

Cleo, usually easygoing and tolerant where other people's foibles were concerned, found herself entertaining in her breast the kind of feelings that lead to war between nations.
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In spite of being so disturbed by love, Cleo was hungry.
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Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
from Blackwells in April by way of Persephone Books email recommendation
 
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Overgaard | 7 outras críticas | Jan 24, 2023 |
Three daytrippers in 1930s Scotland stop off at a stately home and are shown around by the housekeeper. She relates the story of the owner, Lady Rose- now an old lady, but brought up here.
From an idyllic childhood to growing up...doing the "season" and finding a husband...Lady Rose's magical early years give way to a tense marriage , children...and finally expulsion from "society".
Quite a magical and charming read- I remember seeing it was the Queen Mother's favourite book, and one could picture young Rose as something like Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon..… (mais)
½
 
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starbox | 7 outras críticas | Nov 20, 2021 |
21/2020. I saw this for sale, realised it was by the "Jill" series author, and couldn't find any reviews online, so I had to read it. Three stars reflects my neutrality. The cover is better than the novel, and even that is ruined by terrible typography.

Blurb: "Inspector Dadoux and Ted Gibbons, son of an old colleague of his at Scotland Yard, investigate the seemingly motiveless murder of Lucie de Vorles, owner of the château at Dousarbres."

Reading notes

From the beginning: too much pathetic fallacy weather. Later: including the first and last lines of the novel!

The place name "Ambriches" is oddly reminiscent of Ambridge.

pg 14. Conspiracy theorist landlady: "The summers have never been the same since the war. And now these sputniks, they break up the rays of the sun before it reaches us."

pg 21. Landlady on the tarot-reading cafe proprietress (who tried to prostitute out her learning disabled granddaughter to the protag): "Also Madame hates the rich. She is Communiste. She says that one day the Communistes will rise up and kill all the rich people, like in the Terror, and that she herself will start here in Dousarbres [...]"

pgs 50-1. This is grimmer than I'd presumed (apart from the murder): the protag falls, with his mouth open, into a boggy pond where the murder victim's body had rotted for a week, then struggles out to vomit on the bank, then discovers he's also bleeding from attached leeches.

About halfway through: I knew this was a murder mystery before I began reading but I wasn't expecting a murder, two suicides, two manslaughters, and an attempted murder, by the halfway mark!

Towards the end: if someone had asked me to do the thing then I would've tested it indoors at my leisure first before going through all that inconvenience and doing the thing (mind you, some men do seem to lose any sense of normative behaviour when they're asked for a favour by a "friend").

In conclusion, that was certainly... a book that I read.
… (mais)
 
Assinalado
spiralsheep | Jan 30, 2020 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
34
Also by
1
Membros
1,221
Popularidade
#21,037
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
23
ISBN
95
Línguas
7
Marcado como favorito
3

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