Sandra Hall
(???? – )
Alexandra Hall, usually referred to as Sandy or Sandra Hall, was a London fan active from the late 1950s. She was secretary of both the London Circle and BSFA and was part of the all-female committee of the 1960 Eastercon.
Michael Moorcock wrote in Prolapse #6 that Hall had been a friend of Bobby Wild through the WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force). In Esprit #9 (January 1959) Daphne Buckmaster listed recuits to the London Circle within the previous year including:
Sandra Hall, [a] ... somewhat shyer newcomer who runs a bookshop which actually sells science fiction and occult books, and other off-trail stuff
As by implication she'd only joined the London group in 1958 she quickly became hyperactive. She attended the 1959 Eastercon where she won the fancy dress prize with, according to Ron Bennett in Aporrheta #10, 'sparkling green finger nails' (there was presumably more to the costume than that). She also organised and appeared in a play put on by London Circle members. A few weeks later she was part of the London Circle's expedition to Cheltenham at Whitsun where she 'volunteered to be wardrobe mistress' as participants were supposed to be in fancy dress.
As well as acting as BSFA secretary, she was part of the editorial team for the Association's journal Vector in 1959-60.
She was one of the organisers of the 1960 Eastercon along with Bobbie Gray and Ella Parker. On the Tuesday before the convention the hotel cancelled their booking. Remarkably, they were able to find an alternative. Archie Mercer saw her there:
... arrayed in a sort of exotically regal-costume, frantically asking everybody she met if they could somehow, anyhow, conjure up some dance-music suitable for the occasion.
Ron Bennett noted her as attending the meeting at The Globe before Loncon II in 1965 but she wasn't listed as a member of the convention itself.
She was at one point engaged to Moorcock but later married fellow fan Peter West. Moorcock said in Prolapse that he thought he remembered seeing her at Conspiracy, the 1987 Worldcon.
Her sister was Tikwis Hall, also known as Tikki.
Awards, Honors and GoHships:
- 1959 — Lady of St. Fantony
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