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==Whispering Gallery Issue 053 / WG page template ==


[[File:WG053.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Front Cover, Whispering Gallery 053]]

===Date and Pages===
* November 1996, 40 A4 Pages (including Covers)

===Editor===
* [[Valerie Bierman]]

==Front Cover==
*Standard cover green on white, with borders

==Back Cover==
* Solid green

==Articles== 
* [[View from the Editor's Chair | 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
* [[Book Review | Bookshelf recommendations]] - Jo Kirkham, Diana Crane, Deb Savill, Mike Brain, Viv Lloyd and Ros Williams
* [[Dress in the 15th Century | Men's Dress in the 15th Century]] - What the fashionable man was wearing - Nan Masters
* [[Thady Boy Ballagh, Ollave | More about Ollaves]] - Part 2 - Ros Williams

==Illustrations and Photos==
* 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==
* 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==
===Australia===
* Margaret McKay - various comments on HN

===Canada===
* Tina Dallas - preparation of crossword puzzle, comments on Maple Spit

===Scotland===
* 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===
* 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===
* Paula Charpentier - TLWL

===USA===
* 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==
* Hexham Day 12 April 1997
* Oxford Day, Wolfson College, 12 July 1997

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