https://fancyclopedia.org/api.php?hidebots=1&urlversion=1&days=7&limit=50&target=Ex-Inchmery_Fan_Diary&action=feedrecentchanges&feedformat=atomFancyclopedia 3 - Changes related to "Ex-Inchmery Fan Diary" [en]2024-03-29T13:53:34ZRelated changesMediaWiki 1.33.1https://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Sanderson&diff=198723&oldid=198716Sandy Sanderson2024-03-23T16:00:08Z<p></p>
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</table>Leah Zeldes Smithhttps://fancyclopedia.org/index.php?title=Sandy_Sanderson&diff=198716&oldid=198707Sandy Sanderson2024-03-22T17:49:00Z<p>mention of Hansen's Femizine edition, linkback to "somebody" (should Cyril be mentioned in the main text? but then ideally with sources), date/explain Omnibus</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:SandersonHP1957.jpeg|frame|left|'''Sandy Sanderson''' at [[Loncon]], 1957<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. ''Photo by </del>[[Norman Shorrock]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del>'']]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:SandersonHP1957.jpeg|frame<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><!--scan has only 200px--></ins>|left|'''Sandy Sanderson''' at [[Loncon]], 1957 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(photo </ins>[[Norman Shorrock]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">)</ins>'']]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Harold Peter "Sandy" Sanderson''' was a 1950s [[UK]] [[fan]] and [[editor]]. He is primarily remembered for the [[hoax]] he perpetuated with his creation of the [[Joan W. Carr]] persona, and then for his role in the love triangle of [[Inchmery Fandom]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Harold Peter "Sandy" Sanderson''' was a 1950s [[UK]] [[fan]] and [[editor]]. He is primarily remembered for the [[hoax]] he perpetuated with his creation of the [[Joan W. Carr]] persona, and then for his role in the love triangle of [[Inchmery Fandom]].</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sanderson, from [[Manchester, UK]], first encountered fandom in May 1952 when he attended the [[London SF Con]]. He joined the [[Nor'west Science Fantasy Club]] shortly afterwards and was soon helping run the [[Mancon 1|Mancon]]. He was an Army Sergeant (which explains his military-style, surname-abbreviating [[nickname]]), and after learning of the [[Tucker Death Hoax]], started thinking of something in reverse. In 1953–56, he was deployed to Egypt, whence he did [[fanac]] by mail (and occasional furloughs), providing him with an ideal opportunity to create a fictive [[femmefan]] in his unit's women's auxiliary.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sanderson, from [[Manchester, UK]], first encountered fandom in May 1952 when he attended the [[London SF Con]]. He joined the [[Nor'west Science Fantasy Club]] shortly afterwards and was soon helping run the [[Mancon 1|Mancon]]. He was an <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Army<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>Sergeant (which explains his military-style, surname-abbreviating [[nickname]]), and after learning of the [[Tucker Death Hoax]], started thinking of something in reverse. In 1953–56, he was deployed to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>Egypt<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, whence he did [[fanac]] by mail (and occasional furloughs), providing him with an ideal opportunity to create a fictive [[femmefan]] in his unit's women's auxiliary <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">– see below</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After he returned to a desk job in the War Office, Sanderson became a lodger in the home of [[Joy Clarke|Joy]] and [[Vince Clarke]], with whom he had become close during the hoax. Together they created the intensely prolific [[Inchmery Fandom]]. At some point, he and Joy began an affair, and in early June 1960, she dumped Vin¢ to marry and move to the US with Sanderson. (Vin¢ Clarke retained custody of their 18-month-old daughter, Nicki.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>After he returned to a desk job in the War Office, Sanderson became a lodger in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[London]] </ins>home of [[Joy Clarke|Joy]] and [[Vince Clarke]], with whom he had become close during the hoax. Together they created the intensely prolific [[Inchmery Fandom]]. At some point, he and Joy began an affair, and in early June 1960, she dumped Vin¢ to marry and move to the US with Sanderson. (Vin¢ Clarke retained custody of their 18-month-old daughter, Nicki.)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sanderson was running for [[TAFF]] in the midst of this, but the [[1960 TAFF Race]] was won by [[Eric Bentcliffe]], with whom he had [[feud]]ed – Sanderson placed last out of three. However the deadline was on 15 June, so the starting bad publicity due to the breakup could not have influenced the results much (certainly not the July ''[[Ex-Inchmery Fan Diary]]'', Vin¢’s embittered accusing [[gafiation]] [[letter substitute]]). The running tallies<ref>[http://gostak.co.uk/skyrack/skyrack20.htm See ''[[Skyrack]]'' 20.]</ref> show that Sanderson was by far the least popular in Britain consistently throughout all spring, even though he had a slight lead in the US.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sanderson was running for [[TAFF]] in the midst of this, but the [[1960 TAFF Race]] was won by [[Eric Bentcliffe]], with whom he had [[feud]]ed – Sanderson placed last out of three. However the deadline was on 15 June, so the starting bad publicity due to the breakup could not have influenced the results much (certainly not the July ''[[Ex-Inchmery Fan Diary]]'', Vin¢’s embittered accusing [[gafiation]] [[letter substitute]]). The running tallies<ref>[http://gostak.co.uk/skyrack/skyrack20.htm See ''[[Skyrack]]'' 20.]</ref> show that Sanderson was by far the least popular in Britain consistently throughout all spring, even though he had a slight lead in the US.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/File770/File77098.pdf#page=8 Obituary] by [[Dick Lynch]] in ''[[File 770]]'' 98 (June 1993, p. 8). Largely retelling the Carr affair in quotes from ''[[Wealth of Fable]]''. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/File770/File77098.pdf#page=8 Obituary] by [[Dick Lynch]] in ''[[File 770]]'' 98 (June 1993, p. 8). Largely retelling the Carr affair in quotes from ''[[Wealth of Fable]]''. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><references /></del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''Joan W. Carr''' (akbbreviated'''JoCa''' and even '''[[JWC]]''', not to be confused with the US usage) was a popular UK [[femmefan]] in the early 1950s, who turned out to be a [[hoax]] created by the male UK fan Sandy Sanderson, along with [[Frances Evans]]. Then a sergeant in the British Army stationed in Egypt, Sanderson reported meeting a WRAC (British WAC) who’d expressed an interest in [[fandom]]. This was at a time when there were not a lot of women in [[fandom]], though the numbers were growing fast compared to the 1940s.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">=Joan W. Carr=</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"She" was soon [[letter|writing]] to various [[fans]] back in England, and was eventually asked </ins>(and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">agreed) to [[edit]] </ins>''[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Femizine</ins>]]''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, which became </ins>a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very </ins>popular [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">focal point</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for female unity </ins>in the [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">UK</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. At </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">height of its popularity under Joan's editorship, it had a respectable circulation over 200 and generated reader response of roughly 50% – which was unheard of</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">before or since. When the </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hoax</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was finally revealed early </ins>in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1956, it shook up many of </ins>the [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fans</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and particularly the </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">femmefans</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who had responded so positively</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''Joan W. Carr''' </del>(<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">aka '''JoCa''' </del>and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'</del>''[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">JWC</del>]]''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">') was </del>a popular <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">UK </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">femmefan</del>]] in the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">early 1950s, who turned out to be a </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hoax</del>]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">created by </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">male UK fan Sandy Sanderson</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">along with </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Frances Evans</del>]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Then a sergeant </del>in the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">British Army stationed in North Africa, Sanderson reported meeting a WRAC (British WAC) who‘d expressed an interest in </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fandom</del>]]<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. This was at a time when there were not a lot of females in </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fandom</del>]]. </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">"She" was soon writing to various [[fans]] back in England, and was eventually asked (and agreed) to edit ''[[Femizine]]'', which became a very popular focal point for female unity in the [[UK]]. At the height of its popularity under Joan's editorship, it had a respectable circulation over 200 and generated reader response of roughly 50% – which was unheard of, before or since. When the [[hoax]] was finally revealed early in 1956, it shook up many of the [[fans]], and particularly the [[femmefans]] who had responded so positively.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But it was not as if this sort of gender bending had not taken place before. In the US, when [[Lee Hoffman]] started publishing ''[[Quandry]]'' <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in 1950</ins>, the fact that there were two <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">male </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">BNF</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">s named Lee </ins>– [[Charles Lee Riddle|(Charles) Lee Riddle]] and [[Lee Jacobs]] – led everyone to simply assume that [[LeeH]] was a he rather than a she. But the distinction, perhaps, is that Shirley Hoffman had not intended to [[hoax]] anyone when she used her childhood nickname on her [[fanzine]]. When her attempts to hint otherwise – e.g., writing about sitting cross-legged on the bed while typing or sending [[column]]ist [[Walt Willis]] a Valentine's Day card – failed to alert anyone, she became amused and continued it, just telling it to a few friends, until she could unmask at the [[Nolacon]], the 1951 [[Worldcon]]. See [[Lee Hoffman Hoax]]. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But it was not as if this sort of gender bending had not taken place before. In the US, when [[Lee Hoffman]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first </del>started publishing ''[[Quandry]]'', the fact that there were two <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">other fans named Lee who were prominent </del>[[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">BNFs</del>]] – [[Charles Lee Riddle|(Charles) Lee Riddle]] and [[Lee Jacobs]] – led everyone to simply assume that [[LeeH]] was a he rather than a she. But the distinction, perhaps, is that Shirley Hoffman had not intended to [[hoax]] anyone when she used her childhood nickname on her [[fanzine]]. When her attempts to hint otherwise – e.g., writing about sitting cross-legged on the bed while typing or sending [[column]]ist [[Walt Willis]] a Valentine's Day card – failed to alert anyone, she became amused and continued it, just telling it to a few friends, until she could unmask at the [[Nolacon]], the 1951 [[Worldcon]]. See [[Lee Hoffman Hoax]]. </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{fancy2|text=</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{fancy2|text=</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Joan W<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>Carr''' One of the more popular [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hoaxes</del>]] in [[fannish history]], which boasts a good many. She was a [[femmefan]], first born in the mind of [[H. P. Sanderson|HP (Sandy) Sanderson]] back in October 1952. When he was posted to the Middle East, Sandy [a sergeant in the British army] concocted with [[Frances Evans]] a plot against the male members of the [[Northwest Science Fantasy Club]] (of [[Manchester]], his home town). Soon after arriving in North Africa he told them of meeting a WRAC [British WAC] who took an interest in [[fandom]]. Later "she" wrote letters to various Manchester fans, using a [[typer]] (Sandy never did) and signing "her" signature in green with a special pen. Later, she came into contact with [[fans]] outside of the original Northern group, and by May 1954 was well-known in [[Anglofandom]]. It was generally assumed that she and Sandy would be married at the end of their overseas tour. (One British <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>femmefan<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </del>worried a bit about their future, remarking that Joan sounded like one of those ultra-masculine sergeants the WRACs develop and would probably not make anybody a good wife.) </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Joan W Carr''' One of the more popular [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">hoax</ins>]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">es </ins>in [[fannish history]], which boasts a good many. She was a [[femmefan]], first born in the mind of [[H. P. Sanderson|HP (Sandy) Sanderson]] back in October 1952. When he was posted to the Middle East, Sandy [a sergeant in the British army] concocted with [[Frances Evans]] a plot against the male members of the [[Northwest Science Fantasy Club]] (of [[Manchester]], his home town). Soon after arriving in North Africa he told them of meeting a WRAC [British WAC] who took an interest in [[fandom]]. Later "she" wrote letters to various Manchester fans, using a [[typer]] (Sandy never did) and signing "her" signature in green with a special pen. Later, she came into contact with [[fans]] outside of the original Northern group, and by May 1954 was well-known in [[Anglofandom]]. It was generally assumed that she and Sandy would be married at the end of their overseas tour. (One British femmefan worried a bit about their future, remarking that Joan sounded like one of those ultra-masculine sergeants the WRACs develop and would probably not make anybody a good wife.) </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Meanwhile, back in [[England]], [[Frances Evans|Frances]] (who had been studying the reaction among [[Anglofen]] while Sandy animated his creation in Egypt) had been in touch with [[Ethel Lindsay]], and had put forward the idea of uniting all the female [[fans]] thru a magazine of their own. Joan "volunteered" to edit it, and so [[Femizine|FEMIZINE]] came into being. It was more popular than expected. Suddenly [[femmefandom]] turned up plenty of talent that had previously been hidden. In short order [[FEZ]] had a circulation of 200, with up to 50% letter returns -- an amazing reader response. By March 1955 [[Ethel Lindsay]] had been brought into the plot, Joan was known thruout [[fandom]], and time was running short. JoCa had grown out of all consideration of the original idea, and began to go [[gafia]]. [[FEZ]] was turned over to [[Pamela Bulmer]] (who produced issues 8&9) in July 1955, and presently Joan had reduced her activity to [[OMPA]] only and was slowing down there. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Meanwhile, back in [[England]], [[Frances Evans|Frances]] (who had been studying the reaction among [[Anglofen]] while Sandy animated his creation in Egypt) had been in touch with [[Ethel Lindsay]], and had put forward the idea of uniting all the female [[fans]] thru a magazine of their own. Joan "volunteered" to edit it, and so [[Femizine|FEMIZINE]] came into being. It was more popular than expected. Suddenly [[femmefandom]] turned up plenty of talent that had previously been hidden. In short order [[FEZ]] had a circulation of 200, with up to 50% letter returns -- an amazing reader response. By March 1955 [[Ethel Lindsay]] had been brought into the plot, Joan was known thruout [[fandom]], and time was running short. JoCa had grown out of all consideration of the original idea, and began to go [[gafia]]. [[FEZ]] was turned over to [[Pamela Bulmer]] (who produced issues 8&9) in July 1955, and presently Joan had reduced her activity to [[OMPA]] only and was slowing down there. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the hoax was revealed it dealt British female fandom a jolt from which it has yet to recover (1959). The fear of this had led Frances and [[Ethel Lindsay|Ethel]] to decide that Joan should go gafia; Sandy started to take over Joan's activities in his own name, spreading talk of a quarrel between himself and Joan. Unfortunately, in May '56 somebody blew the gaff; [[Ron Bennett]] was intending to create a mythical wife, also named "Joan", and someone in the secret told him it had already been done. Hints and suggestions were flying around the [[Cytricon II|'56 Kettering<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] [[</del>convention]], and it was decided to break the story in [[FEZ]] 9. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When the hoax was revealed it dealt British female fandom a jolt from which it has yet to recover (1959). The fear of this had led Frances and [[Ethel Lindsay|Ethel]] to decide that Joan should go gafia; Sandy started to take over Joan's activities in his own name, spreading talk of a quarrel between himself and Joan. Unfortunately, in May '56 somebody blew the gaff; [[Ron Bennett]] was intending to create a mythical wife, also named "Joan", and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Cyril Evans|</ins>someone in the secret<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </ins>told him it had already been done. Hints and suggestions were flying around the [[Cytricon II|'56 Kettering convention]], and it was decided to break the story in [[FEZ]] 9.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Joan's name in the first place was taken from a box of Carr's biscuits and from Carrs Mills, where a non-fan cousin of Sandy's (who later posed for photos of "Joan") lived. It was chosen without any thought of the various meanings that could be read into it and its contractions JoCa and JWC. It says something for the differences between [[US|Yanks]] and Britons that many of Sandy's [[Army]] acquaintances knew of his hoax yet didn't think there was anything odd about it, even picking up "her" mail and holding it while Sandy was on leave. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Joan's name in the first place was taken from a box of Carr's biscuits and from Carrs Mills, where a non-fan cousin of Sandy's (who later posed for photos of "Joan") lived. It was chosen without any thought of the various meanings that could be read into it and its contractions JoCa and JWC. It says something for the differences between [[US|Yanks]] and Britons that many of Sandy's [[Army]] acquaintances knew of his hoax yet didn't think there was anything odd about it, even picking up "her" mail and holding it while Sandy was on leave. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(Note that the ''Fancy 2'' chronology is somewhat misleading – [[Cytricon II]] took place over Easter at the turn of March/April, and ''Femizine'' 9 itself was dated May 1956. Also, square brackets above are a transcription of Fancy's strike-through slashes, used here without a clear distinction from ordinary round parentheses.)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For more, see Chapters [https://fanac.org/Fan_Histories/Then/Then_22.html Four] and [https://fanac.org/Fan_Histories/Then/Then_23.html Five] of ''[[Then]]'' by [[Rob Hansen]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For more, see Chapters [https://fanac.org/Fan_Histories/Then/Then_22.html Four] and [https://fanac.org/Fan_Histories/Then/Then_23.html Five] of ''[[Then]]'' by [[Rob Hansen]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and especially his 2023 ''[https://taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=GenFez Generation Femizine]''</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Harold Peter "Sandy" Sanderson''' was a 1950s [[UK]] [[fan]] and [[editor]]. He is primarily remembered for the [[hoax]] he perpetuated with his creation of the [[Joan W. Carr]] persona, and then for his role in the love triangle of [[Inchmery Fandom]].</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Harold Peter "Sandy" Sanderson''' was a 1950s [[UK]] [[fan]] and [[editor]]. He is primarily remembered for the [[hoax]] he perpetuated with his creation of the [[Joan W. Carr]] persona, and then for his role in the love triangle of [[Inchmery Fandom]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sanderson, from [[Manchester, UK]], joined the [[Nor'west Science Fantasy Club]] <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in 1952, </del>soon helping run the [[Mancon 1|Mancon]]. He was an Army Sergeant (which explains his military-style, surname-abbreviating [[nickname]]), and after learning of the [[Tucker Death Hoax]], started thinking of something in reverse. In 1953–56, he was deployed to Egypt, whence he did [[fanac]] by mail (and occasional furloughs), providing him with an ideal opportunity to create a fictive [[femmefan]] in his unit's women's auxiliary.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sanderson, from [[Manchester, UK]], <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">first encountered fandom in May 1952 when he attended the [[London SF Con]]. He </ins>joined the [[Nor'west Science Fantasy Club]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">shortly afterwards and was </ins>soon helping run the [[Mancon 1|Mancon]]. He was an Army Sergeant (which explains his military-style, surname-abbreviating [[nickname]]), and after learning of the [[Tucker Death Hoax]], started thinking of something in reverse. In 1953–56, he was deployed to Egypt, whence he did [[fanac]] by mail (and occasional furloughs), providing him with an ideal opportunity to create a fictive [[femmefan]] in his unit's women's auxiliary.</div></td></tr>
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