Dorothy Hartwell
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Dorothy Ann Hartwell was a British fan and poet from Hornchurch in Essex active in the late 1950s and early 1960s. She started reading sf around 1953 and first encountered fandom in 1958. In Hungry #2 (1960) editor Alan Rispin said she 'entered fandom after being dragged into correspondence with myself and two other youngfen.' A letter in Prolapse #5 implies the other two were Brian Jordan and Jim Linwood and that the initial contact came via the BSFA. She attended the 1960 Eastercon.
In Who's Who in Science Fiction Fandom (1961) she gave her interests as collecting records and corresponding with about 50 others. She added:
I write, poetry, stories, articles. Stories varied, poetry emotional, articles fact-perennial. Also collect rings, big colorful rings.'
Her fanzine contributions appeared in Bhismi'llah, Bunyip, Dynatron and Hungry. She produced at least one issue of a fanzine called Trial in 1960. The Who's Who... also mentions something called Whispering which as of 1961 was 'in process of being collected'. It's unclear whether it ever was.
In 1961 she was employed as a switchboard operator/typist and she had earlier studied journalism.
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- ↑ Who's Who in Science Fiction Fandom 1961 gives her date of birth as May 4, 1954 and the year at least is clearly wrong.
