Marzipan & Kisses

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==
==Described in the Mainstream Press==
"Marzipan & Kisses" was mentioned in an article in The Baltimore Sun: 
==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==
Category:Dorothy Dunnett
Category:1984 Zines
Category:1980s Zines
Category:1990s Zines
Category:2000s Zines