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Whispering Gallery (Dorothy Dunnett magazine)

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Zine
Title: The Whispering Gallery
Publisher: Dorothy Dunnett Foundation (DDF); Dorothy Dunnett Readers' Association (2001-present)
Editor(s): Val Bierman, Denise Gannon, Sandra Hall... see website
Type: magazine
Date(s): 1991-present
Frequency: quarterly
Medium: print
Size: A4
Fandom: Dorothy Dunnett
Language: English
External Links: website here
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cover of issue issue #45, reproduced by permission of the DDRA
cover of issue #106, reproduced by permission of the DDRA

Whispering Gallery is a Dorothy Dunnett magazine published in the UK and distributed worldwide to members of the Dorothy Dunnett Readers' Association (DDRA). The copyright is held by the DDRA.

Whispering Gallery is the successor to a letterzine named Marzipan and Kisses, founded in the USA in 1984 by Jean Clissold and Karen Brandl. Starting with issue 33, Dorothy Dunnett arranged for an international variant named Whispering Gallery to be created and published by the Dorothy Dunnett Foundation (DDF) for readers outside North America.

The DDF was wound up by Dorothy Dunnett in 2001 and its assets and rights assigned to the Dorothy Dunnett Society (then known as the Dorothy Dunnett Readers’ Association) which now publishes Whispering Gallery. In 2001, Marzipan and Kisses ceased publication and Whispering Gallery became available for readers in North America as well as the rest of the world.

After Val Bierman’s time, the editor’s role has been undertaken by unpaid volunteers, the latest of whom is Suzanne McNeill whose first issue was Issue 108 in September 2010.[1]

The first issue published was #33 in October 1991: the numbering of issues paralleled those of Marzipan and Kisses.

Editors

Past and present editors: Marzipan and Kisses (previous incarnation):

Whispering Gallery:

  • Issues 34-40: Edinburgh Book Festival staff
  • until 2004: Valerie Bierman
  • 2004-2007: Denise Gannon
  • 2007-Jun 2010: Sandra Hall
  • Sep 2010- Suzanne McNeill

Issue 45

Whispering Gallery 45 was published in November 1994.

Issue 109

Whispering Gallery 109 was published in December 2010.

Issue 114

Whispering Gallery 114 was published in March 2012.

Highlights of Issue 114, despatched to Dorothy Dunnett Society members in March 2012:

  • Trustees’ Annual Report
  • Dorothy Dunnett’s Iceland
  • Figurative Language in �The Lymond Chronicles
  • Disorderly Knights
  • Educating Nicholas
  • Behind Locked Doors: Inside the Venetian Arsenal
  • Dunnett Social Networking Sites
  • Extreme Dunnetting

References