Rachel Ferguson

Rachel Ethelreda Ferguson, (1892–1957) was an English novelist, playwright and journalist who was born on 17 October 1892 at The Nest, Church Grove, Hampton Wick. She was the third child of Robert Norman Ronald Ferguson.

Works

Novels and short story collections

• False Goddesses (1923)
• The Brontës Went to Woolworths (1931) (Reprinted as a Virago Classic in 1988 and as part of 'The Bloomsbury Group' in 2009)
• Victorian Bouquets: Lady X Looks On (1931)
• The Stag at Bay (1932)
• Nymphs and Satires: Humorous Sketches (1932)
• Celebrated Sequels (1934)
• A House in Lowndes Square (1936)
• Alas, Poor Lady (1937) (Reprinted by Persephone Books in 2006)
• A Footman for the Peacock (1940)
• Evenfield (1942)
• A Stroll Before Sunset (1946)
• The Royal Borough (1950)
• Sea Front (1954)

Memoirs and biographies

• Passionate Kensington (1939)
• Memoirs of a Fir Tree: The Life of Elsa Tannenbaum (1946)
• We Were Amused: Memoirs (1958)

Plays

• Charlotte Brontë: A Play in Three Acts (1933)
• The Late Widow Twankey (1943)
• And Then He Danced the Ife of Espionosa by Himself (1946)

References

• Oxford DNB
• Author's Page Persephone Books
• Alas, Poor Lady at Persephone Books