WG054

Whispering Gallery Issue 054 / WG054

Front Cover, Whispering Gallery 054

Date and Pages

• February 1997, 36 A4 Pages (including Covers)

Editor

• Valerie Bierman

Front Cover

• Standard cover green on white, with borders

Back Cover

• Solid green

Articles

• Editorial - Valerie Bierman
• 'Rich, lovely Cyprus' - Audrey Hart
• A Renaissance Man, Cosimo de Medici - Joy Madden
• Hats and Head-Dresses in the second half of the 15th Century - Nan Master

Illustrations and Photos

• Photo of Ca' Niccolò - Jean Hanson
• Photo of Church of Our Lady in Trier or Treves from TLWL - Marjory Rodrick
• Photograph, Ottawa gathering July 1996 - uncredited
• Photograph of Ann McMillan and Dorothy Dunnett at Greywalls - uncredited

Ephemera

• The Times on Scottish Cultural Resources Network, SCRAN, on CDs - submitted by Mike Brain
• Follow the Path to...Italy - Jean Hanson
• Follow the Path to Edinburgh and Edinburgh Book Festival - unattributed
• Lymond Goes to Hollywood and Meets Reality (Kind of) - unattributed, an unknown American
• Do you know? questions and answers - Jane Idiens and Anne Key printed first in MK053

Letters

Australia

• Rena Lahav - character studies of Marian, Violante, Primafora, Kathi
• Margaret McKay - some thoughts on lines from NR, early pages, how did Greek break wooden leg--would love prequel to NR

Canada

• Sharel Miller- end of TLWL is painful, but last line hopeful; prefer Kathi to Gelis; don't believe FFJ on Nicholas

Scotland

• Ann McMillan - defends Nicholas and Gelis from Jen Downing's more negative views in WG053

England

• Diana Crane - possible meaning of 'conduct of oaf, talents of girl, mortification to father' repeated line; perhaps Simon was humiliated by similar words when 15, coming from Sophie or Simon
• Linda Butcher - visits to Dunnottar, Stirling, Hexham; replies to WG053 letters
• Ros Williams - ideas on backstory for Alice Shaw, resonses to WG053 letters
• Jo Kirkham - FFJ seems to be behind barrel incident at Bruges Carnival - but maybe it's Jaak
• Mike Brain - casting game, can foresee virtual reality version of LC and HN
• Kate Hannam - loving working through issues 1032 of MK, on MK020, maybe Nicholas really is an innocent cursed, Kathi says "He doesn't think he's important enough for any disaster to matter.'
• Sheelah Morris - Nicholas seems loosely based on Jakob Fugger, looks forward to more Lymond and Nicholas travel, gatherings
• Stefania Dorudottir - loves WG, Dunnett's layered books: devoured Lymond and KH, excited that TLWL partly in Iceland, hopes to attend Hexham gathering
• Janet Kebbell - Nicholas lost link to Jodi when Gelis burnt toy; thinks L loved children; Sybilla getting bad press lately, quotes from book on Cosimo de' Medici and René d'Anjou as major impetus behind Renaissance
• Audrey Beach - Other medieval sites in Paris; why was Tasse killed at that point, and is Alice Shaw or Adelina at Coulanges?
• Sandra Hall - found passage in George Eliot that Dunnett referenced in talk: Nicholas thinking he's found Jodi inverts Silas Marner's discovery of golden curls of Eppie, not gold
• David Beach - connected with an old school friend through attending a Dunnett lunch with wife

France

• Paula Charpentier - some 15th and 16th century paintings that portray characters in HN, LC

USA

• Nancy Wyman - is Sophie Nicholas's foster mother, to Diana Crane: madrigal is recorded on CD and first verse a translation of a Marot lyric
• Connie Carah - Nancy Silberstein's chart interesting; could the Dame de Doubtance be a twin of Jodi? Marthe must be descendant of Gelis; FFJ instigated the near death of Nicholas by burning in barrel
• Darlene O'Connell - prefers Nicholas to Lymond; despises Gelis; likes crosswords

Forthcoming Events

• Hexham Day 12 April 1997
• Oxford Dunnett Day, Wolfson College, 12 July 1997

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