Seeing Fairies is Out: Lost Manuscript Found July 9, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
A bragging post today. This morning a copy of Marjorie Johnson’s Seeing Fairies: From the Lost Archives of the Fairy Investigation Society arrived by express delivery: major kudos in the village when the red van drives up and the courier demands a signature, the butcher and the baker came out to watch. Regular or perhaps […]
Epiphany Gift #4: The John O’London Fairy Letters! January 6, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
Welcome to the fourth annual Beachcombing epiphany gift: first there was War in Dollyland; then there was Scary Fairies; then there was New Frontiers and now, in cooperation with the Fairyist we offer the John O’London Fairy letters, an early twentieth-century cache of fairy encounters from a period when these things were not much written […]
Lucy Bruce, Iona and the Fairy Investigation Society March 5, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
Miss Lucy Bruce is a virtually forgotten twentieth-century mystic, who spent some of her life on the Isle of Iona in Scotland. She interests the writer of this post because she was a member of the Fairy Investigation Society and he is presently trying to learn more about the organization by tracking all members down: […]
Desperately Seeking Marjorie June 26, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite, Contemporary
***Dedicated to whosoever helps Beach to find Marjorie*** It is very bad form to write two articles on fairies in as many days, but Beach has been excited since Splendid Chap emailed with the exciting information that Marjorie Johnson is still alive in Carlton, Nottinghamshire (UK). Marjorie was born in 1911 and by 1956 she […]
