Rachel Ferguson





Rachel Ferguson

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born
January 01, 1883 in Hampton Wick, The United Kingdom

died
January 01, 1957

gender
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Rachel Ferguson was born in 1883 in Hampton Wick. Rachel was educated privately, before being sent to finishing school in Italy. She flaunted her traditional upbringing to become a vigorous campaigner for women's rights and member of the WSPU.

In 1911 Rachel Ferguson became a student at the Academy of Dramatic Art. She enjoyed a brief though varied career on the stage, cut short by the First World War. After service in the Women's Volunteer Reserve she began writing in earnest.

Working as a journalist at the same time as writing fiction, Rachel Ferguson started out as 'Columbine', drama critic on the Sunday Chronicle. False Goddesses, her first novel, was published in 1923. A second novel The Bröntes Went to Woolworths did not appear until 19...more


Average rating: 3.55 · 170 ratings · 70 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Brontës Went To Woolworths
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1931 — 9 editions
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Alas, Poor Lady
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1937
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False Goddesses
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“A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could one tell her that books are like having a bath or sleeping, or eating bread - absolute necessities which one never thinks of in terms of appreciation. And we all sat waiting for her to say that she had so little time for reading, before ruling her right out for ever and ever.”
Rachel Ferguson, The Brontes Went to Woolworths

“I often think that perhaps there is only a limited amount of memory going about the world, and that when it wants to live again, it steals its nest, like a cuckoo.”
Rachel Ferguson, The Brontes Went to Woolworths

“I had gone for the letters at once. The post always intoxicates me; everythin it throws on to the mat is a magic square or oblong which may alter your life.”
Rachel Ferguson, The Brontës Went To Woolworths