WG146
Whispering Gallery Issue 146 / WG146
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Date and Pages
[edit | edit source]- March 2020, 52 A4 Pages (including Covers)
Editor
[edit | edit source]Front Cover
[edit | edit source]- Front cover | A Sea of Mud, Alexi Kondratyevich Savrasov,1894 Credit www.the-athenaeum.org
Inside Front Cover
[edit | edit source]- Calligraphy by Monica Murray RC 2.1 - A description of the landscape that needed to be crossed by Richard Chancellor's group in order to reach Moscow.
Inside Back Cover
[edit | edit source]- Top left: Colour illustration of a parrot. The artist Peter McClure, who drew the maps for the endpapers of The House of Niccolò series, often sent pictures to Richenda Todd, Dorothy Dunnett’s editor. The extract comes from UH 2.4. Photo credit: Richenda Todd/Maxim Rickard.
- Top Right: Illustration | Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting, Pieter de Hooch, c. 1663–65. Image credit Metropolitan Museum of Art/Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Quotation from CM 5.9 describing a technique of wall panels called Cordovan.
- Bottom left: Illustration of Pat Sibley’s ‘Dunnett Shrine’. Photo credit: Pat Sibley, Washington, USA.
Back Cover
[edit | edit source]- Back cover | Map of Russia from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius, 1571-84. Credit: Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Articles
[edit | edit source]- A View from the Wynds - Suzanne McNeill
- The Chairman’s Column - Simon Hedges
- Trustees' Notice Board - Deborah Conway Read, Janet McCourt, Julia Hart
- Members’ Page
- Exploring the Dorothy Dunnett Archive in Boston, Again - Colleen Kubinski
- Cheer up: it’s spring outside - Janet Kebbell
- Routes to Russia - Carole Richardson
- A Dunnett Lexicon - Appanaged, Pudkey, Train Oil Carole Richardson
- Wrapping Up Dunnett - . Pt5/16. Exploring the jacket design and cover art. Il perfetto eroe italiano, Excursions into foreign language translations - Kate Jewell
- IDDD 2019 Photos from Celebrations Around the World
- Trustees’ Annual Report approved 19 February 2020
- In Defense of a Lady of Most Pious Character - Transcription of her talk at Essex Day, July 2019 Linda Butcher
- The Royal Arms of Scotland - 4. James V, King of Scots, 1512-42 - Charles J. Burnett
- Marthe’s Sacrifice - Salatheel
- Tribute Book - A Devotion to Words - F.E. Pardoe
- Men with Bifocal Glasses: I...Wonder - Judith Wilt
- Crime Novels - The Dunnett Archive - Transcription of speech at the Edinburgh Book Festival, 22nd August 1987 Dorothy Dunnett
- Dunnett Shout-Outs
- New Joiners
- Talking Point Why we should read the Johnson Johnson books. See letter contributions
- Who-Dunnett? How does Margaret Lennox know that Lymond is in Russia
- Book Review ‘Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England’ by James Evans - Val Asker
- That’s Relevant! - The Baths of Baden Kerstin Hehl, Lute Rachel Walkley, Chess Piece Alexandra Yudovich
- A Letter from Dorothy Dunnett to Kate Flint, 14 August 1975
- Back cover - Cuir de Cordoba - Deborah Conway Read
Letters
[edit | edit source]England
[edit | edit source]- Lisa Hopkins Talking Point
- Norah Perkins Talking Point
Norway
[edit | edit source]- Jules Griffith Talking Point
Scotland
[edit | edit source]- Nicky Kenny Talking Point
USA
[edit | edit source]- Judith Grubner Talking Point
Forthcoming Events
[edit | edit source]- Dunnett Weekend, Friday 24th-Sunday 26th /April 2020
- Oxford Day, 13th June 2020 at Wolfson College
- Essex Day 2020, Saturday 25th July 2020
- DDS/HWA Short Story Competition
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