Audrey Lovett
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Audrey Lovett was a UK fan active in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a member of the Science Fantasy Society and was on the committee of Festivention in 1951. She reportedly moved to the United States in 1953 after which she attended the 1956 Worldcon, NyCon II, as part of the team promoting the bid for Loncon.
Lovett was to a degree active as early as 1947 when by extrapolation she would have been in her mid-teens. She had a letter in Fantasy #3 (August 1947) to which she added a rather surprising P.S.:
No female elements as suggested please – the world of the future belongs to men.
She was a committee member for the 1951 international convention, Festivention, with a remit for publicity when she was still perhaps a teenager. She acted with the S-F Soap Opera Company in a skit, 'Who Goes Where', and in the auction she was (we can only hope willingly) 'sold as a slave-girl to Ego Clarke' (Bill Temple, Hyphen #1).
The Christmas 1951 issue of Science Fantasy News reported that:
At least two London Circle members, Audrey Lovett and Mike Wilson, will probably be heard in mid-January on the BBC 'Under-Twenties' programme ... subject s-f.
The programme, The Younger Generation: Space Travel, billed as 'A discussion by under-twenties about recent scientific fiction particularly the films The Day the Earth Stood Still and When Worlds Collide and the novel The Sands of Mars', was aired on January 4, 1952, and also featured Arthur C. Clarke.
Science Fiction News Letter #29 (Summer 1953) reported that:
Audrey Lovett, 'London's pride-and-joy brunette fan' ... arrived in New York last month. She plans to remain In this country.
It seems that she did, as Frank Arnold wrote about the White Horse in Eye #3 (Christmas 1954), mentioning Lovett and musing, 'does she still think sometimes, I wonder, of the boys she left behind her?' The third progress report for NyCon II, the 1956 Worldcon, notes her as one of the 'Londoners' who would be present to support the bid 1957. The name 'Audrey Lovatt' [sic] is listed as an American member of the Loncon and Hyphen #18 (May 1957) lists her among the expected 'Stateside visitors' while similarly misspelling her name, but it's unclear if she attended.
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