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The Late Widow Twankey, In Twenty-Two Magnificent Scenes Army and Navy Publishers
In the English country town of Daisydown, things may not appear as they seen. There lives Cinderella and her two awful stepsisters, the Bopeep family, the grandmother, Mrs. Woolf, sho is visited every week by her granddaughter, Little Red Riding Hood, and the impoverished family with the son who trades their cow for a sackful of worthless beans. The Vicar's wife, Allison Beech, is a new arrival in town and is stupefied by this, and once another newcomer arrives, Prince Charming, a psychologist, and his brother Earle, does she start doing some investigating to get to the bottom of things with her new friends.
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Published January 1, 1944
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Rachel Ferguson
20 books19 followersRachel Ferguson 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 Royal 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 1931, but its wide acclaim confirmed Rachel Ferguson's position in the public eye. Over the next two decades she wrote extensively and published nine more novels.
Rachel Ferguson lived in Kensington until her death in 1957.
In 1911 Rachel Ferguson became a student at the Royal 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 1931, but its wide acclaim confirmed Rachel Ferguson's position in the public eye. Over the next two decades she wrote extensively and published nine more novels.
Rachel Ferguson lived in Kensington until her death in 1957.
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December 10, 2016
This book is nonsensical, insane, and if I thought that proper Engilshwomen during WWII would eat magic mushrooms and write a book, I would insist that is the case with the Late Widow Twankey. It's absurd, I never knew really what was going on, but the writing is so hilarious that I loved it. Think of it as post-modern humor, I suppose. Rachel Ferguson is a gem, only because her books are BATTY. You'll never be able to follow if, but if you want a choice line in every paragraph, this is a juicy book. Very hard to find. I had to get this through a bookseller in England.
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