Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein continues the ‘Her Letters To Lovecraft’ series with a look at the Winifred Virginia Jackson letters. Interestingly, we’re reminded that Lovecraft discovered she was an ardent Irish Nationalist who…

does secretarial work at the [Sinn Fein] offices two or three days every week without remuneration.

He had already had experience of these strong Irish sentiments in the Providence group of Amateurs he attempted to nurture. I can add that she was perhaps doing more than simply typing, as I’ve found she appears to have been working for a New York ad agency circa 1920. Seemingly as a copywriter, then in need of an assistant.

There might be an article for The Fossil in such trends. A wide survey of the overlap between amateurdom and political publications of various kinds (Irish Nationalist, Germanophile, Anglophile, varieties of Anarchism, Prohibitionist, early gay-rights, free-love and birth-control etc.) before the advent of hardline 1930s-style Communism and Nazism. Articles by Ken Faig in The Fossil have already covered some of the ground, as I recall.

Incidentally, Deep Cuts also has the 2021 posting schedule all mapped out. Impressive. July should be especially interesting, with a series of summer reviews of some obscure “Non-English Mythos Comics”.