WG053
Appearance
Whispering Gallery Issue 053 / WG page template
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Date and Pages
[edit | edit source]- November 1996, 40 A4 Pages (including Covers)
Editor
[edit | edit source]Front Cover
[edit | edit source]- Standard cover green on white, with borders
Back Cover
[edit | edit source]- Solid green
Articles
[edit | edit source]- Editorial - Valerie Bierman
- 'There are four ways to meet persecution. Ignore it, suffer it, do it better than they do. Or just make them laugh'. Transcribed from a Q&A with DD from her recent tour by Jo Kirkham. Also see Talks and Interviews by Dorothy Dunnett
- Questions and Answers? Or Simply More Puzzles? More Questions and Answers - Joss O'Kelly, Jen Downing
- Bookshelf recommendations - Jo Kirkham, Diana Crane, Deb Savill, Mike Brain, Viv Lloyd and Ros Williams
- Men's Dress in the 15th Century - What the fashionable man was wearing - Nan Masters
- More about Ollaves - Part 2 - Ros Williams
Illustrations and Photos
[edit | edit source]- Dorothy Dunnett at Stratford - unattributed
- Postcard of XII-XIII century fresco showing St Catherine and her wheel
- Photographs of Bruges, Adorne tomb and Minnewater - credited Colin McMillan
- The Dumpies at Home - Credit: NTS News
Ephemera
[edit | edit source]- Brawls, Battles and Bombards, program of Edinburgh Renaissance Band - Peter Jones
- From brochure 'Residential Courses in Britain' - unattributed
- The Dorothy Dunnett Lovers Crossword
- Digging up the Past - Researchers uncover a secret buried for 600 years from The Scotsman, Valerie Bierman
Letters
[edit | edit source]Australia
[edit | edit source]- Margaret McKay - various comments on HN
Canada
[edit | edit source]- Tina Dallas - preparation of crossword puzzle, comments on Maple Spit
Scotland
[edit | edit source]- Ann Brown - Nature/Nurture, HON
- Dick Frank - HON showing main character from point of view of other characters, masks, "return to life', travel recommendations
- Ann McMillan - Nicholas redeemable, but has done much he was accused of, miss poetry of LC but prose of HN meatier, grander
England
[edit | edit source]- Fran Babb - Comments on travel to locations relevant to the novels
- Jen Downing - Comments on convents and nunneries, TLWL and various responses
- Pamela George - HON
- Sandra Hall - Various responses CM, KH, HON, TLWL, casting for TV adaptation
- Audrey Hart - Travel comments, Istanbul
- Janet Kebbell - Re-reading HON
- Jo Kirkham - Questions on QP and RC, ollaves
- Viv Lloyd - Charlotte M Yonge's book about Mary, Queen of Scots Unknown to History
- June Simpson - Travel comments, Sinai Desert
- Ros Williams - Various responses HON and LC
- Kate Hannam - not a fan of Sybilla, Gelis is The One, Nicholas's match
- Diana Crane - Scottish madrigal lyric set to music by Steill, perfect for Nicholas to sing to Gelis but probably too late
- Mike Brain - Report on NR audio tapes by Steven Pacey and April Dunnetwork exchanges
- Joss O'Kelly - visits to Bruges and Edinburghshow connections between Scotland and Flanders, and more
- Juliet Pollard - could not read TLWL at first, too sure of unhappy ending, but finally reading, caught, seeing romantic possibility between Kathi and Nicholas
France
[edit | edit source]- Paula Charpentier - TLWL
USA
[edit | edit source]- Nancy Wyman - Unanswered questions
- Kelli Way - Defends Nicholas with facts, negative view of Gelis after TLWL
- Nancy Silberstein - table with ages of HN characters when LC characters born; at Baltimore gathering of Dunnett fans worked on genealogies
Forthcoming Events
[edit | edit source]- Hexham Day 12 April 1997
- Oxford Day, Wolfson College, 12 July 1997
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- Lymond Chronicles, first two reprinted in paperback - Michael Joseph