WG055

Whispering Gallery Issue 055 / WG055

Front Cover, Whispering Gallery 055

Date and Pages

• May 1997, 40 A4 Pages (including Covers)

Editor

• Valerie Bierman

Front Cover

• Standard cover green on white, with borders

Back Cover

• Solid green

Articles

• Editorial - Valerie Bierman
• Bookshelf recommendations - Olive Millward, Jo Kirkham, Angela Verrill and Elizabeth Hammett
• On the Upbringing of Children - Margot Lovejoy
• Hair and Headgear for Men in the 15th Century - Nan Masters
• The Journey to Sinai Was Bad. . . Things Have Improved! - part one of two - Olive Millward

Illustrations and Photos

• Illustrations of Caravels from The Dorothy Dunnett Companion - Peter McClure
• Photograph on the Road to Sinai - credited Olive Millward
• Dorothy Dunnett's Photo Album Sinai 1992, illustrating quotations from UH
• Portrait Gallery, suggested portraits of Kathi and Nicholas - suggested by Linda Butcher and Myra Williams
• These Boots Were Made for Walking - write caption for photo of Dunnett's Sinai shoes - unattributed

Ephemera

• Marzipan & Kisses- or M&K, on obtaining back issues - unattributed
• Financing the Big Finish - Anne Artymuik
• Swap Shop, Dunnett books wished and available, including French translations HN - unattributed
• In MK055 as 'Life on the Internet': WG editor's note, 'last look at snippets from the internet' - Alan Hejnal sent in by Mike Brain
• News - a diet for the Dumpies - submitted by Diana Crane
• Aberdeen Evening Express, review of GOK - Anne Law
• The Scotsman on the salt pans and Moby the Whale - unattributed
• The Mystery Solved - Jane Idiens is unidentified reader at Greywalls, WG054 - unattributed
• Poem on typos - 'Poet Tree with Mist Aches' - submitted by Elizabeth Presland
• Printed in MK055 only: Excerpt from Ivan the Terrible by Henri Troyat, with 'little heifer' as term of affection - sent by Anne Barnett

Letters

Australia

• Rena Lahav - character studies of Nicholas, Umar, Tobie

Canada

• Phyl Good - found parallels not precursors between HN and LC before connection revealed after UH; early HN books more enjoyable for themselves, finds self reading TLWL too much as puzzle
• Betty Boldt - loves meeting other Dunnett fans through MK issues
• Barbara Lethbridge - introduces self, some questions on cover pictures of Sphere paperback LC

Scotland

• Val Dean - worked on archaeological site of Roman lioness found near Edinburgh; enjoyed Elspeth Morrison's tour of Edinburgh mentioned WG052
• Ann McMillan - Dunnett gives us the pleasure of re-evaluating character; likes Rena Lahav's view of Kathi but some divergence; has questions about HN plot points
• Gill Brand - would like comments on ideas about Tasse, the duchess's actions at the end of UH

Wales

• Ann Looker - lost children in HN as in Silas Marner; more evidence Dunnett readers also enjoy Babylon 5
• Barbara Coe - evidence Katelina already pregnant at the waterfall, perhaps Zorzi the father

England

• Linda Butcher - more on 'talents of a girl' maybe in LC, struck by linking Nicholas to Silas Marner
• Pamela George - responses to WG053 and WG054
• Rachel Dufton - responses to WG054, Kate and P must be descended from Kathi
• Sandra Hall - joys of rereading, finding Diniz knew of Katelina's pregnancy in ROS; Gelis has Holy War against Nicholas like Austin Gray in LC, responses to WG54 letters
• Joss O'Kelly - recommends Lisa Jardine's Worldly Goods, likes Diana Crane's ideas on "conduct of an oaf"
• Pauline Wright - please, no films of Dunnett's novels ever
• Janet Kebbell - more scenarios for updated Lymond Chronicles from Hollywood and others
• Jen Black née Downing - nice twist from Diana Crane on 'talents of a girl' origin, replied to earlier letters, do MK and WG letters tend to attack heroines more than heroes?
• Jo Kirkham - who is the Grandfather that the Dame de Doubtance tells Lymond she knew?; more evidence that Kuzum is Lymond's son
• Angela Verrill - introduces self; prefers LC to HN and glad to see is not alone; would like a new JJ before end of HN
• Elizabeth Hammett - rereading GOK, found it gripping and still surprising, especially moved by Christian Stewart
• Ros Williams - responses to WG054 letters
• Mike Brain - short responses to WG054 letters, asks advice on talking to members of 'local ladies' church group into reading Dunnett

Germany

• Barbara Wintersohl - enjoys WG, would like Michael Joseph hardback copies NR and SOTR

France

• Patricia Rigg - kudos to imagined Hollywood film scenarios of the 'unknown American'

USA

• Jennifer Gile - repetition and other issues in email letters, we need a new book
• Merrie Kendrick - loved researching poetry, speculating about LC, less engaged by HN
• Nancy J. Silberstein - why impossible to reproduce in MK and WG threads on email from Dunnetwork; too voluminous and problem of getting approval for reprint from authors
• Yvonne Davis - more questions rereading TLWL on FFJ's lies, role of Clemence and Coulanges, Grafin Anna, Bonne

Forthcoming Events

• Edinburgh - Edinburgh Renaissance Band and Edinburgh Book Festival, August 1997
• Oxford Dunnett Day July 1997

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• First six novels in House of Niccolò - Published in Penguin paperback
• Lymond Chronicles, third and fourth volumes, DK and PF, reprinted in paperback - Michael Joseph
• News - formation of Historical Novel Society

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