WG161

Whispering Gallery Issue 161 / WG161

Front Cover, Whispering Gallery 161

Date and Pages

• March 2024, 52 A4 Pages (including Covers)

Editor

• Suzanne McNeill

Front Cover

• Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph). Sandro Botticelli. c. 1480-85. Credit: Bridgeman Images.

Inside Front Cover

• Calligraphy by Monica Murray - ROS 8

Back Cover

• Edward Fiennes de Clinton, later 1st Earl of Lincoln, Anonymous, 1562. Copyright: Ashmolean Museum/Bridgeman Images.

Articles

• A View from the Wynds - Suzanne McNeill
• The Chairman’s Column - Simon Hedges
• Trustees' Notice Board - Jill Harrison, Lisa Hopkins, Deborah Conway Read
• Members' Page
• Helping Out... with Membership Administration - Val Asker, Jenny Smith
• Tribute Book - Jane Buccleuch
• The Case for Primaflora - Pt 1 of 3 - Alicia Rasley
• Among the archives ... - Dunnett as (Non)cook - Heather Jacobson
• Historical Fiction and the Historian: Researching the Characters of the Auld Alliance - Dr. Bryony Coombs
• Seeing Doubley: Johnson Johnson's Bifocals - Lisa Hopkins
• The Silver Rosebush - Christine Deasey
• Men’s Fashion in the 16th Century - Ineke de Jong
• A Dunnett Lexicon - Minatory, Retiary, Predicant - Carole Richardson
• There is a Season ... - Pt 1 of 4, Spring - Janet Kebbell
• Reading the Lymond Chronicles - An overview - Ian Bristow
• Library-sampling and the Value of Collections - Dorothy Dunnett - The Dunnett Archive. Also see Talks and Interviews by Dorothy Dunnett
• Lymond Country – Part 3 of 5, Solway Moss - Carmel Macpherson
• Talking Point - Think of your three favourite moments from Niccolò Rising - why do you love them?
• That’s Relevant! - Dyrhólaey, Stephanie Anderson; Nicholas the Hermit, Catherine Arthur; The Thread of the Mistar, Diana Crane
• A Letter from Dorothy Dunnett to Karen Borgnes (Mooney)
• A Close Read - The Game of Kings, Pt 1 Ch 5.2 - Scott Richardson

Illustrations and Photos

• IDDD 2023 Photo Montage

Ephemera

• Historical Writers Association Crowns Evening 2023 - Betty Moxon
• Pentlands Book Festival 2023 - Lesley Burnie

Letters

Belgium

• Margaret du Maine-Simpson - Talking Point

Canada

• Tina Dallas - Talking Point

England

• Sandra Hall - Talking Point

USA

• Auralee Childs - Talking Point
• Colleen Kubinski - Talking Point

Forthcoming Events

• Dunnett Weekend Friday 26th-Sunday 28th April 2024
• Oxford Day, Wolfson College, 22 June 2024

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