Margaret Page

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Margaret Page was a fan from Glasgow, Scotland in the 1950s. With her husband, David, she hosted alternate meetings of the New Lands SF Club at their home, and she attended Cytricon II, the 1956 Eastercon in Kettering.

In a profile in Contact #8 (February 1957) Ethel Lindsay said that 'While not herself much of a reader of sf she always took a sympathetic interest in all of "the boys" doings.'

When Lindsay attended her first meeting of the New Lands group at Matt Elder's home, probably in 1953, she was surprised that there were no other woman present as a newspaper report had said, 'Recent recruits include a number of women members, many of them housewives'. This, and the fact that the other members were all younger than her and quite quiet, was a little offputting. However, she went back, this time to a meeting at the Page home:

... and there I met Margt. and after that things were better. The boys stopped being polite to me, took me for granted, and then started to insult me and ridicule everything I said, whereupon I decided I had been accepted as a member.
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Margt. does а very good job of keeping the boys in check, and comes to my defence whenever I am too outnumbered'.

It may be stretching a point to describe Margaret Page as a fan but it's possible that Ethel Lindsay might have been lost to fandom without her.

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