WG043
Whispering Gallery Issue 043 / WG043
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Date and Pages
[edit | edit source]- November 1995, 36 A4 Pages (including Covers)
Editor
[edit | edit source]Front Cover
[edit | edit source]- Standard cover with an image.
Back Cover
[edit | edit source]- Plain green cover.
Articles
[edit | edit source]- Editorial - Includes personal note from Dorothy Dunnett thanking the Edinburgh Book Festival for the 1990 and 1994 readers' International DD Gatherings in Edinburgh as well as thanking Valerie Bierman for agreeing to continue editing WG "...which has taken wing...".
Letters
[edit | edit source]Australia
[edit | edit source]- Janet Boyd - General comments on HON series; How reader perspective changes with each novel.
New Zealand
[edit | edit source]- Alice Stielow - Which child?; Nicholas' parentage
Scotland
[edit | edit source]- Ann Brown - Observations on female characters in HON series
Wales
[edit | edit source]- Mike Brain - Short responses to many letters in WG042.
- Ann Looker - Which child (Lymond Chronicles)? The author's use of the supernatural in both the HON and the LC.
England
[edit | edit source]- Dianne Crane - Observations on Nicholas' situation in UH.
- Joyce Z Weil - What is a 'round ship'?
- Angela Finlayson - Etymology of the name Gelis. Mary Queen of Scots visits to Lochleven Castle & Kinross.
- Joss O'Kelly - various observations on HON series
- Barbara Chapman - difficulty of obtaining Collector's editions of NR and SOTR.
- Christine Styles - Lack of strong females in HON series; Music in the LC series. The character of Gelis.
- Ros Williams - Lymond's height; Possible background of Dame de Doubtance. Was Sybilla a good mother?; Nicholas' personality; Was Gelis selfish?; Nicholas' parentage; Relationship between Jordan, Nicholas and Simon; Does the original uncut version of GOK exist?
- Margaret O'Sullivan - Questions on the Crawford family.
- Anne Key - 35 Questions concerning UH plus general observations.
- Myra Williams - Influences on young Nicholas; Nicholas and Marian relationship.
- Sandra Hall - Paranormal in HON; Anselm Adorne; Umar's fate.
USA
[edit | edit source]- Nancy Silberstein - Oonagh O'Dwyer; Jaak de Fleury; Nicholas's views on marriage.
- Merrie Kendrick - still a DD fan despite disappointment with UH.
- Alicia Rasley - Simon/Gelis relationship; Mystery of Primflora.
Canada
[edit | edit source]- Tina Dallas - Nicholas' motives and comparison with Lymond. Gelis' character & motivations misunderstood.
- Elizabeth Holden - Ambiguity of Gelis' real character; Lusignan family. Ultimate message of LC; Why GoK is my favourite novel in LC; Character of Oonagh O'Dwyer; Sybilla's character.
Anon
[edit | edit source]- Nicholas a "good guy"; Lymond's and Nicholas's relationships with women; Mystery concerning Lucia's history; Austin Grey's character compared to Jerott Blyth.
Forthcoming Events
[edit | edit source]- Possible day in Bristol on Sat 16th October 1994 covering Merchant Venturers as well as Knight's Templar.
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[edit | edit source]- Inside front cover: UH. Large-format paperback.
- Inside front cover: SoG. Out now in paperback.
- Inside back cover: Illustrated covers of Arrow paperbacks of four JJ Mysteries. LC: Illus covers of all six paperbacks and KH.