Joni Murray
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Joni Murray was a UK editor of the girls' paper Heiress, a successor to The Girl's Own Paper[1]. She is known to have attended Festivention in 1951. On the Sunday 'the overseas guests were presented to the audience, and asked about the present state of s-f in their respective countries'[2]. After the presentations:
Questions were asked for from the audience, and several interesting points, such as the number of technicians and scientists who read s.-f, and the proportions of woman readers (this last brought up by Mrs Murray, the editor of the girls paper Heiress), -were discussed[3].
It's unclear whether Mrs Murray was attending the convention in a professional capacity – Heiress was not known for its genre content before or after – or as a fan (or both). This does, though, seem to have been her only interaction with fandom.
Links
- 'More than just a magazine': The Boy's Own Paper and Girl's Own Paper, 1914-1967 by Alison Louise Enever (May 2014) at University of Southampton Research Repository (source for her forename)
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- ↑ The first issue of The Girl's Own Paper appeared on January 3, 1880. The name was changed to The Girl's Own Paper and Heiress in 1947. By 1951 it was called Heiress incorporating the Girl's Own Paper. It closed in 1956.
- ↑ Science Fantasy News #8 (July 1951).
- ↑ Ibid.
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