Hello to you all again. I have been away for the last few weeks, although I did check the site from time to time. Things have gone really quiet so I thought...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Apr 14, 2001 9:19 am
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
Apr 14, 2001 3:04 pm
Hope this message gets through as the system has been behaving oddly! Good to hear from Michael. I have been away too, wandering in the Spanish mountains, far...
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William Powers
sfsd40@...
Apr 15, 2001 1:11 pm
A number of us have been traveling lately, it seems. I just got back from a couple of weeks in San Francisco myself. I ran across an interesting little store...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
Apr 15, 2001 3:03 pm
The reprints of Braddon are done by Jennifer Carnell who lives in Sussex, UK. e-mail address is jennifercarnell@.... She has brochures, etc. Trefor...
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Jess Nevins
jjnevins@...
Apr 15, 2001 3:44 pm
... I got a first edition of the Pearson book off of eBay for around $40, and that was after a minor bidding war. I think you can do better than that in most...
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clarinnis@...
Apr 15, 2001 3:53 pm
Am always looking for Tip Top Weeklies (Merriwells). Please contact me off-list if you have interest in selling any. clarinnis@......
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Apr 16, 2001 8:44 am
Hello to all, Firstly, thanks to Trefor for that email address for Jennifer Carnell ( who organised the two Braddon reprints ). I had lost it. By the way,...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Apr 16, 2001 8:46 am
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
Apr 16, 2001 4:09 pm
Thanks for the info. on Brett. Dont trouble with scanning the Victorian Studies article as I have access to it in the University Library. The other article &...
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William Powers
sfsd40@...
Apr 16, 2001 9:18 pm
By the way "The Doctor's Wife", by Braddon was also issued as a paperback in the Oxford World's classics in 1998 and should be easy to find in that edition -...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Apr 21, 2001 7:41 pm
Hello everyone, One member has told me that he has had trouble posting messages. If this happens to anyone else, please email me off-list at...
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danielma@...
Apr 23, 2001 10:49 pm
Hello everyone, Does anyone know of an article on Spring-Heeled Jack published in FORTEAN STUDIES sometime in the last five years? My apologies for not...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Apr 23, 2001 11:21 pm
Hello Daniel, I had never heard of this article, or for that matter Fortean Studies. But I just did a quick google search and here's what I came up with: at...
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danielma@...
Apr 24, 2001 1:22 am
Hi Justin and others, Thanks for the response. Am I correct in assuming that you meant to (or did) include a URL for a site where someone has a copy of the...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Apr 24, 2001 8:33 am
Hello Daniel, I am just curious--did you read Haining's book about SHJ? I have never picked it up because I don't have the highest opinion of Haining, but I'd...
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Jess Nevins
jjnevins@...
Apr 24, 2001 11:35 am
I thought Haining's book was fairly well done, with the usual caveat that I wanted to check his sources. Well worth looking at if you're interested in SHJ, at...
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Steve Prange
sprange@...
Apr 27, 2001 12:02 am
The website said, "New members are encouraged to introduce themselves"....so here goes. Steven Prange here, from Indianapolis, IN. Retired (only because the...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
Apr 27, 2001 11:01 pm
Hello Steve, Welcome to the list. I am always glad to have new members, and I'm always interested to hear what other people collect. I don't think I have any...
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Watkins, J.L.
jlw18@...
May 4, 2001 11:35 am
Hi there, I have just begun looking into some of the 19th century penny dreadfuls for my masters thesis. I have no previous knowledge of the areas and would...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
May 4, 2001 11:52 am
Hello to all and welcome to our new member, Steve. Like Justin, I don't think I have any firefighting stuff, but I do have a pile of miscellaneous storypapers...
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Jess Nevins
jjnevins@...
May 4, 2001 12:25 pm
The hell with the fakes, the Cannibal Courtesan needs to be written now. jess...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
May 4, 2001 12:38 pm
Hello Julie, Unfortunately very few penny dreadfuls have been reprinted recently. Wagner the Wehr-Wolf by G. W. M. Reynolds, and Varney the Vampyre, probably...
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William Powers
sfsd40@...
May 4, 2001 1:07 pm
Just a bit of trivia for you all. Since I've seen so much interest in Spring-Heeled Jack in this forum, I just thought that I'd mention that when reading The...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
May 4, 2001 4:52 pm
... From: "Watkins, J.L." <jlw18@...> To: <BloodsandDimeNovels@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:35 PM Subject: [BloodsandDimeNovels]...
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danielma@...
May 5, 2001 4:00 am
How about a little more Spring-Heeled Jack, Thanks for the bit of trivia. I had planned earlier today to query the big Victoria Listserv about references to...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
May 6, 2001 2:20 pm
This is a minor query, but it puzzles me: The Jack Harkaway stories by Bracebridge Hemying are usually called Penny Dreadfuls. However, I have copies of a...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
May 6, 2001 2:42 pm
I intended to write Halfpenny Dreadfuls in the last line of my query. Trefor...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
May 7, 2001 9:54 pm
Steve I had a look through my stuff but no firefighting items. However, I see some stuff on ebay which you might be interested in. Here's the address: ...
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a.maisey@...
May 8, 2001 12:02 pm
Hi there, my name is Alex Maisey, I'm a trainee librarian at University College London, - and along with Kiera Chapman, a Phd student researching the early...
