WG090

Whispering Gallery Issue 090 / WG090

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Front Cover, Whispering Gallery 090

Date and Pages

February 2006, 56 A4 Pages (including Covers and 4-page colour supplement)

Editor

Denise Gannon

Front Cover

Standard blue cover, no photo
Inside Front Cover- Advertisement for The Lymond Poetry 'Here in one volume is the poetry of love, of folk-humour and ballad, the songs of poets and of the troubadours, translated where need be into English' Dorothy Dunnett. Penguin paperback £ 10.99 0141012447

Back Cover

Solid blue
Inside Back Cover. Advertisements for the two-volume The Dorothy Dunnett Companion.

Articles

Editorial - Denise Gannon
The Makars' Court Stone in Memory of Dorothy Dunnett - Betty Cooper
News from the Committee - Simon Hedges
The Malloch/Malett Link - Sandra Hall
In the Company of . . . Philippa Cochrane - Ann McMillan
The Dunnett Banquet - Pat Wilkinson
Obituary - Jean Dickinson - Jo Kirkham
The Laying of a Commemorative Stone - Ann McMillan
King Hereafter: The Book and the Sources Pt 3/3 - Heike Meyer
The Dunnett Siege of Malta - Simon Hedges
The Dunnett Siege of Malta four-page colour supplement - Kathy Lewis, Stephanie Martin, and Ingrid Hummelshoj
Wit and Witlessness: Comedy in Dunnett and Austen - Jan Fergus
The Ten Best Things about Malta, Pt 1/2 - Elizabeth Holden
Loving Sybilla, Pt 3/3 - Julia Hart
Talking Point The Day I met Dorothy. See letter contributions.
Ray's Rant on the Siege of Malta - Ray Gannon

Ephemera

The Literary Traveler in Scotland - Ann McMillan - Congratulations to Allan Foster, author of the Literary Traveller in Edinburgh, on his signing a contract to edit the Literary Traveller in Scotland. We will be interested in suggestions from members on Dunnett sites outside Edinburgh for Allan to include in this broader book.

Subscription News - Simon Hedges
New Members - unattributed
Last page, DDRA membership, WG back issues
Bookshelf recommendation - Val Asker
Competition Results, Makar's Court Quotation and DD Sudoku Solution - unattributed and Helen Sansom
Meet the Committee - Olive Millward introduces herself
Fiendishly Devilish Prize Quiz - Linda Butcher
Missing Poetry? - Sandra Hall.

'I thought I would use the Amazon.com 'search inside' facility to try to locate the three poems in The Lymond Poetry that Elspeth edited and could not find when she went through all the series:

- "A la fonyenele, qui sourt soz la raime" [p103]
- "The longer life, the more offence" [p141]
- "To Mistress Margaret Hussey" [p165]

This facility is available for all (apart from GOK), but although I input the key phrases, none of these poems came up at all. So I am stumped.

Letters

England

Sandra Hall - first books then letter then signing at Edinburgh
Linda Butcher - signing TLWL Canterbury
Rose Williams - comments on many characters
Shirley Wade - why she disagrees with Sandra Hall's critique

Wales

Judith Sansom - answer to WG088, Bailey more loathsome, Margaret Lennox more villainous
Mike Brain - brief review of KH and comments on previous issues

USA

Doreen Castle - comment on WG089

Forthcoming Events

Essex Away Day, March 2006
Oxford Day 2006
Bath 2006 Gathering
Timbuktu anyone?
Saddell in Scotland, April 2007
Allan Foster - (the Literary Traveller in Scotland) will be giving a talk to DDRA members on the afternoon of the AGM/ Gathering in Edinburgh on 22nd April 2006.