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Marzipan & Kisses
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Title: | Marzipan & Kisses |
Publisher: | Bound in Leather Press (DDF) |
Editor(s): | Jean C. & Karen B. (all issues except #17, which was edited by Lucy Procter) |
Type: | letterzine |
Date(s): | 1984-2001 |
Frequency: | |
Medium: | |
Fandom: | Dorothy Dunnett |
Language: | English |
External Links: | cited here, Wayback link |
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Marzipan & Kisses is a Dorothy Dunnett letterzine published in the United States and edited by Jean C. and Karen B. The first issue was published in January 1984. Its successor is Whispering Gallery, which is published in the UK.
Marzipan & Kisses was typed and photocopied by hand.
Description
A letterzine devoted to the Lymond Chronicle and other works by Dorothy Dunnett. M&K will be published bi-monthly at $2.00 an issue after the premiere January '84 issue. Contributions of letters, artwork, research, translations, questions, etc. are cheerfully encouraged! [1]
Described in the Mainstream Press
"Marzipan & Kisses" was mentioned in an article in The Baltimore Sun:
...[Dunnett] remains baffled by the degree of devotion her work inspires. The most astonishing thing, she says, was the avalanche of mail she began to get -- nearly 2,000 letters a month. At first she tried to correspond with everyone, but she quickly learned that if she answered all her mail, she would not have time to do any writing.She was rescued by a "letterzine," a fan periodical in which fans can communicate with other fans and Dunnett can occasionally address them.
The 'zine, called Marzipan & Kisses, is a quarterly that goes to 130 U.S. and Canadian readers, and about 200 in Britain and Europe.... "Every time you read [Dunnett's books], you find something new," says letterzine editor Karen Brandl [address redacted] "And the writing is brilliant. These are romances in the true sense of the word." [2]
Issue 1
January 1984, reprinted August 1997, contains 24 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- A Lymond Chronology - timeline with notes
- The Adventures of a Blond Gentleman, as Recorded by a Writer named Dorothy (reference to Lord Peter Wimsey)
- letters by Beth Nugteren, Terri Beckett, Jean Chun, Barbara Tennison, Jody Nye, Karen Brandl, Barbara Green Deer, Sonja Vathjunker, Tabby Davis, and Jean Clissold
Issue 2
March 1984, reprinted August 1997, contains 20 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Market Place in Tsarhorod (Song of Byda) (poem) from Mrs Dunnett
- The Game of Tarocco
- Horoscope of Francis Crawford Lymond and Sevigny, as supplied to Dorothy Dunnett by a professional astrologer
- letters by Aleck Campion, Barbara Green Deer, Beth Nugteren, Jean Clissold, Terri Beckett, Barbara Tennison, Sonja Vathjunker, Sue-Anne Hartwick, Penny Warren, and Karen Brandl
Issue 3
May 1984, contains 24 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Four part harmony score of "Josiant vocis (= Jouyssance vous donneray)" by Claudin de Sermisy
- Publicity release from Century Publishing and review of The Game of Kings and Queens' Play
- Short extracts concerning Scorpio from Saturn Signs by Michael Lutin
- Paragraph concerning Margaret Lennox from Costume and Fashion by Herbert Norris
- letters by Penny Warren, Debra R Borys, Barbara Tennison, Sonja Vathjunker, Meg Thompson, Natassa Andritsou, Tabby Davis, Sandy J McKay, Aleck Campion, Ellen Kushner, Sue-Anne Hartwick, Terri Beckett, Gael Scott, and Myra Morales
Issue 4
July 1984, reprinted April 1998, contains 42 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Concerning one Thomas Crawford
- Extract from "Her Rob Ryall: the Costume of Mary of Guise" by Rosalind K Marshall (Costume, #12 1978, The Journal of the Costume Society)
- Questions about the Lymond Chronicles from "Mastermind" TV quiz show, Spring 1984, supplied by Dorothy Dunnett
- letters by Mrs Alastair Dunnett, Barbara Green Deer, Marjorie J Johnson, Penny Warren, Bev Clark, Debra Borys, Terri Beckett, Wanda Lybarger, Tabby Davis, Liz Teis, Jean Clissold, Susan Sizemore, Sue-Anne Hartwick, Meg Thompson, Gael Scott, Natassa Andritsou, Aleck Campion, and Barbara Tennison
Issue 5
September 1984, reprinted May 1998, contains 30 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Answers to Mastermind quiz questions in previous issue
- letters
Issue 6
November 1984, 24 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- The Scotts and Kerrs at Work and Play - Beth Nachison
- The Lymond Chronicles and the Tarot - Liz Teis
- letters
Issue 7
January 1985, 12 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- The Knights of St John: a very brief history - Terri Beckett
- letters
Issue 8
March 1985, 12 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- letters
Issue 9
May 1995, reprinted August 1998, 30 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- 1963 "Cast List" for Game of Kings Film - Cheshire Frager
- "Prince Heathen" ballad text from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child (ed), 1965
- Three poems by Thomas Wyatt - Liz Teis
- letters
Issue 10
July 1985, 32 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Notes on "The Crawford Family", excerpt from The Clans and Tartans of Scotland by Robert Bain, rev 1946
- The Lament of the Border Widow, supposedly written of a reiver hanged at his own door 1529
- letters
Issue 11
October 1985, reprinted December 1998, 30 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Crawford Family Tree - Stephanie Turnbole
- letters
Issue 12
January 1986, reprinted February 1999, 26 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Familial arms descriptions from Burke's General Armoury of 1884
- Ballade Des Dames Du Temps Jadis by François Villon, with translation into 17th century English
- letters
Issue 13
May 1986, reprinted April 1999, 54 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Ballad of the Dead Women - Deb Laymon
- Master "cast list" for the Lymond Chronicles - Stephanie Turnbole
- Political supplement to Barbara Green Deer's Chronology - Myra Morales
- letters
Issue 14
August 1986, reprinted January 1998, 14 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- letters
Issue 15
January 1987, reprinted February 1998, 28 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- PiF chess game diagrams - Marguerite Krause
- Brief chronology of Lymond's life - Lillian Armstrong
- letters
Issue 16
March 1987, reprinted August 1997, 16 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- letters
Issue 17
July 1987, 20 pages
- editor: Lucy Procter
- letters
Issue 18/19
November 1987, 46 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Dorothy Dunnett Biography Data
- The World of Suleyman the Magnificent by Merle Severy (condensed from National Geographic November 1987)
- Various reviews and plot summary of Niccolò Rising
- Article on the Knight Crusaders of Malta
- An Author of Substance: Dorothy Dunnett by Maryhelen Clague (from The Romantic Times, Summer 1986)
- letters
Issue 20
April 1988, 36 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- The Rose Cavaliers - by Dorothy Dunnett, June 1987
- Various accounts of lunch with Dorothy Dunnett, a visit to her house and the presentation to her of a silver rosebush
- letters
Issue 21
April 1988, 16 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- letters
Issue 22
August 1988, 40 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Obituary - Stephanie Turnbole
- Master "cast list" for the Lymond Chronicles, contd
- Bruges travel diary - (contributor's name illegible)
- letters
Issue 23
January 1989, 20 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Macbeth Reconsidered by Stanton Siederovitch (reproduced from the Discovery Channel magazine)
- The Spring of the Ram review by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- letters
Issue 24
May 1989, 22 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Chapter from The Navigations Into Turkie by Nicolas de Nicolay, London, 1585 - modern translation by Elizabeth Holden
- letters
Issue 25
September 1989, 28 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Dorothy Dunnett, announcing 1990 Edinburgh Convention
- Family trees of royal houses of Savoy, Burgundy, Scotland, Brittany
- Elizabeth Casciani meets one of Scotland's busiest and most successful novelists
- letters
Issue 26
- January 1990, 22 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Penguin Books news release concerning The Spring of the Ram
- letters
Issue 27
April 1990, 34 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Quiz set by Dorothy Dunnett for delegates at the Edinburgh convention
- Prestonfield House menu for the Dorothy Dunnett convention
- University of Edinburgh dinner menu 31 March 1990 (in Latin)
- Pilgrimage to unlikely shrine by Anne Kiggell (The Times, 3 April 1990)
- Edinburgh Renaissance Band programme for the dinner on 31 March 1990
- letters
Issue 28
July 1990, 40 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- A Gathering of the Fans by Jan Fairley - The Independent, 13 April 1990
- How Dorothy Does It by Alan Taylor - The Observer Scotland, 25 March 1990
- Mystery of the Missing Criticism by Keith Brace - The Birmingham Post, 7 April 1990
- Answers to previous issue's quiz
- letters
Issue 29
October 1990, 36 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- The Dunnett Novels: readings by an acolyte - Judith Wilt
- letters
Issue 30
- January 1991, 24 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Talk and Q&A given by Dorothy Dunnett at the Edinburgh Convention 20 March 1990 - transcribed by Nancy J Silberstein
- Answers (from Dorothy Dunnett) to three unanswered questions
- letters
Issue 31
- April 1991, 16 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- letters
Issue 32
- July 1991, 28 pages
- editors: Karen Brandl and Jean Clissold
- Dorothy Dunnett interviewed by Jennie Renton - from The Scottish Book Collector Issue 12, June/July 1989
- The Historical Novels of Dorothy Dunnett by Richard Dalby
- Dame Janet Beaton by Nancy Corkill
- letters
References
- ^ from Datazine #28
- ^ Return of a great Scot Author: Dorothy Dunnett's historical novels have been republished, and the devoted fans of Francis Crawford of Lymond couldn't be happier by Karol V. Menzie for The Baltimore Sun, posted 10 November 1997, accessed 1 May 2012