{"id":44769,"date":"2021-02-02T05:40:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=44769"},"modified":"2021-02-02T05:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T02:40:26","slug":"more-on-winifred-virginia-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/more-on-winifred-virginia-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Winifred Virginia Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein<\/em> continues the &#8216;Her Letters To Lovecraft&#8217; series with a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/deepcuts.blog\/2021\/01\/30\/her-letters-to-lovecraft-winifred-virginia-jackson\/\">Winifred Virginia Jackson letters<\/a>. Interestingly, we&#8217;re reminded that Lovecraft discovered she was an ardent Irish Nationalist who&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>does secretarial work at the [Sinn Fein] offices two or three days every week without remuneration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>There might be an article for <em>The Fossil<\/em> 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 <em>The Fossil<\/em> have already covered some of the ground, as I recall.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <em>Deep Cuts<\/em> also has the <a href=\"https:\/\/deepcuts.blog\/schedule\/\">2021 posting schedule all mapped out<\/a>. Impressive. July should be especially interesting, with a series of summer reviews of some obscure &#8220;Non-English Mythos Comics&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein continues the &#8216;Her Letters To Lovecraft&#8217; series with a look at the Winifred Virginia &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/more-on-winifred-virginia-jackson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}