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(3) * illustrations in alphabetical order of artist (default = MP) and subject.
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Volume
1, issues i–iv
published between Autumn
1988 and Spring 1990
Articles
Back to School: a note on Patrick McGrath’s Ambrose
Syme, Colin Greenland, iv: 5–8. Suggests
some influence of MP on McGrath.
‘A barrier of foolery?’ The depiction of women in Titus Alone, Tanya Gardiner-Scott, i: 13–26. Reprinted
in Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone (A12l). Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press,
1992. pp.344–54.
Belsen, 1945 [two drawings and a poem], Mervyn Peake, ii: 24–25
‘The
Consumptive. Belsen 1945.’ A note, Tanya Gardiner-Scott, ii: 26–28. Compares
two versions of MP’s ‘Holocaust’ poem.
Eric Drake 1898–1988, G Peter Winnington, i: 5–12. A brief sketch
of the life and impact on MP of his English teacher at Eltham – the man
who founded the artist community on Sark, built the gallery there, and drew MP
out to join him. With three contemporary photographs, not previously published.
Expandable
architecture, Laurence Bristow-Smith, i: 27–30. Suggests
that MP’s ‘pantechnicon’ style influenced other novelists like
Michael Moorcock, J P Donleavy, and J G Farrell in particular.
From Fantasy: the 100 Best Books, James Cawthorn and Michael
Moorcock, ii: 5–6. Reproduces
the entry on MP from a newly published book.
From the heart of bone: the painterly vision of Mervyn Peake,
John D Cox, iii: 5–15. A
paper read at the 1972 MLA conference.
The graphic art of Mervyn Peake, Veronica M S Kennedy, iii: 17–24. A
paper read at the 1972 MLA conference.
Harlequin and Harlequina’s house of painted magic, Michael
Moorcock, ii: 29–32. Reminiscence
of Maeve and Mervyn reprinted from The Guardian.
MP’s shorter fiction, Richard C West, iii: 25–31. A
paper read at the 1972 MLA conference.
On the editing of Titus Alone, G Peter Winnington, iv: 19–28. Reproduces
a previously unpublished letter from the editor of TA to MP, discusses the impact
it had on MP and adds a fresh letter from the same editor.
Periodical Peake, G Peter Winnington, ii: 33–37. A
survey of recent articles on MP.
Recent and forthcoming publications, i: 31–36
Recent
publications, iii: 39–41
Romance, ‘Phantasie’ and the Genesis of Mervyn Peake’s
Trilogy, Sally Jacquelin, ii: 7–18
Translating the Titus books, Rosa Gonzalez, ii: 19–23. The
translator of the Spanish edition reports on some of the problems she encountered.
Reviews
A Child of Bliss [a memoir by MP’s son Sebastian],
reviewed by G Peter Winnington, iii: 33–38
Tanya Gardiner-Scott’s Mervyn Peake: The Evolution of
a Dark Romantic [1989], reviewed by Lesley Marx, iv: 9–18
Peake
at the Imperial War Museum, reviewed by Gerard Neill, iv: 29–34. Twenty-four
of MP’s wartime commissioned drawings and paintings exhibited.
Illustrations
Belsen [2 drawings by Mervyn Peake], ii: 24–25
The dustwrapper
[possibly by MP] for The Fortunes of Falstaff, by John Dover Wilson, iii: 37
*A page
of animal sketches by Mervyn Peake from the manuscript of Titus Alone,
iv: 3
*‘Sebby,
Feb 1948. Sark.’ A drawing by Mervyn Peake, iii: 3 [frontispiece
– a splendid pen-and-ink sketch]
Previously unpublished photographs of Eric Drake on Sark
(i: 4); the Art Gallery, Sark (i: 9); and the Sark group participating in a procession
(i: 11).
Volume
2, issues i–iv
published between Autumn 1990 and Spring 1992
Articles
Afterword: Mervyn Peake as a war artist, by G Peter Winnington,
ii: 43–51. Following
the article reproducing MP’s correspondence with the MoI during WWII (see
below), this piece addresses the question of why MP was not given more work as
a war artist and lists all the works he produced for the MoI.
Book News, i: 25–29
Castles, books, and bridges: Mervyn Peake and Iain Banks, by Ronald
Binns, i: 5–12
Did You Know . . . ? by Pete Bellotte, iv: 19–28. Biographical
snippets culled from MP’s (as yet unpublished) letters to Goatie Smith. Illustrated.
Dr
P G Smith [by GPW], i: 23 & 25. A
brief obituary of MP’s lifelong friend.
Eros and the virgin archetype in the Titus books, by Ann Yeoman,
iii: 3–14
Mervyn Peake’s correspondence with the Ministry of Information
during World War II, edited with notes by GPW, ii: 3–42
News and Reviews, iv: 29–36
News Roundup, ii: 52–53
Peake drama in the saleroom [by GPW], iii: 46–49. Reports
on an important sale of MP manuscripts, mainly his plays, at Sotheby’s.
Peake’s
Thing and Hawthorne’s Pearl, by G Peter Winnington, iii: 15–33
Random
Thoughts on Mervyn Peake: the problems of a novelist, poet, and artist achieving
wider posthumous fame, by Pete Bellotte, i: 19–22
Sita and Salome: a short comparative look at the art of Aubrey
Beardsley and Mervyn Peake, by Gavin O’Keefe, iii: 35–39
Uncollected
Poems by Mervyn Peake, edited by GPW, iv: 5–17. Eleven
poems that had not been reprinted since their first appearance in periodicals
between 1937 and 1948. With notes.
Reviews
At the Stormont Studio, Rye, 1–30 September 1990, reviewed
by Laurence Bristow-Smith, i: 13–17. Some
fifty examples of MP’s life drawing on display.
Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore at the Littlehampton Museum, 12
September–30 November 1991, reviewed by Gerard Neill, iii: 41–45. An
exhibition of work by both Maeve and Mervyn, mainly from the years 1939–1946
that they spent at Warningcamp and Burpham.
Illustrations
Sybil Corbet. A page from Animal Land Where There are
No People (1897) i: 24
Gavin O’Keefe. ‘The far hyena laughter’, i: 28
Mervyn
Peake:
Detail
from Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, iv: 35
*Drawings
from an unpublished propaganda leaflet:
– Reclining
Figure’, ii: 17
– Mourning
Mother, ii: 18
– Landscape
with figure, ii: 26–27
– Mother
and child, ii: 45
‘Happy
Christmas from the Woodstock Gallery’, iii: 24–25
From
Quest for Sita, iii: 34
*‘Manifold
Basket’, iii: 47
Mrs
Lurch, from The Wit to Woo, iii: 40
*Sketches
from the correspondence with Goatie Smith:
*Friendly
monster, iv: 21
*‘The
Emmaumus’, iv: 22
*A
letterhead from 1943, iv: 26
*The
feet of the Dusky Birron, iv: 28
*‘Titus
in Umbra’, from the MS of Gormenghast, iv: 18
*‘Titus
Groan’, from the MS of Titus Groan, iv: 24
*A
witch with her familiar, in a presentation copy of Witchcraft in England,
i: 3
Dubious
attributions to Peake:
The
dustwrapper of The Harp and the Oak by Hugh Massingham, i: 18
Title-page vignette
for Pasternak’s Selected Poems (1946) iv: 3
Volume
3, issues i–iv
published between Autumn
1992 and Spring 1994
Articles
The Chinese Puzzle of MP, Laurence Bristow-Smith, iii: 21–44
A Christian
View of the Titus Books, Selwyn Goodacre, ii: 5–8
Creativity and Disease: the Parkinsonian Imagination of MP, Duncan
Barford, i: 5–15
The Desecration of Rituals in Gormenghast, Luisella Ciambezi,
iv: 17–20
From a Problematics to a Poetics of Peake, Miles Fielder, iv: 21–38
The Green
Peake of Titus Alone, Desmond Mason, i: 17–20
The Impact of MP on his Readers, G Peter Winnington, iii: 7–24
In Respect
to Religion: A Response to Selwyn Goodacre’s article, John Seland, ii: 9–18
A Note
on the Text of the Folio edition, G Peter Winnington, i: 28–32
Peake’s
Fantastic Realism in the Titus Books, Pierre-Yves Le Cam, iv: 5–15
A Snark
from Sark: MP’s illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s Hunting of the
Snark, Gavin O’Keefe, i: 33–39
Reviews
Flawed Masterpieces: new editions of The Hunting of the
Snark and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, reviewed by Gavin O’Keefe,
iv: 39–40
The Folio edition of the Titus books, illustrated by Peter Harding,
reviewed by Gerard Neill, i: 21–27
The Overlook Edition of the Titus Books, reviewed by Selwyn Goodacre,
ii: 23–28
A Sale of Peake drawings at Christie’s: a report by Gerard
Neill, i: 41–42
Illustrations
Anon. The cover of The Hounds of Tyndalos, iii: 21
Laurence
Bristow-Smith. Photographs from China:
– The
Forbidden City, iii: 30
– A
pair of bronze Chinese lions, iii: 32
– One
of a pair of turtle beasts, iii: 34
– One
of the Guardians of the Spirit way, iii: 36
– One
of the elephants along the Spirit Way, iii: 37
– The
blasphemous finger of rock at Chengteh, iii: 41
Anthony Browne. An illustration from The Gorilla (1984)
iii: 23
Gwen Heeney. A photograph of her 30-metre dragon at Ebbw Vale,
iii: 18
Henry Holiday’s frontispiece for The Hunting of the Snark
(1876) i: 35
Desmond Mason:
– Gormenghast
Mountain iii: 15,
– Gertrude,
Countess of Groan, iii: 17
– Two
sketches of Lord Groan, iii: 19
Lucja Mroz. The cover drawing for the Polish translation of Titus
Groan, iii: 9
Gavin O’Keefe. Four illustrations and lettering for Titus
Alone, iii: 10–13
Mervyn Peake:
The
Baker atop the crag, from The Hunting of the Snark, i: 39
*Dr Prunesquallor
and Irma in her party dress. A drawing from the MS of Gormenghast, ii: 25
*Fabian, a brush-and-black-ink-study,
i: 3
Four
illustrations from The Oxford English Course for Secondary Schools, ii: 19–22
*‘Gormenghast
Castle’ – a sketch from the MS of the Titus books, iii: 14
Little Jack Horner,
from Ride a Cock-Horse (1940) iii: 22
*a
pen-and-ink study of Maeve Gilmore, signed and dated ’38, i: 40
Man with a Scythe,
iii: 43
‘The
Maranesa lives alone’, iii: 33
‘Margery
Jourdemayne’: an illustration from Witchcraft in England (1945, p.117)
i: 16
Old
man from Quest for Sita, iii: 39
*a
preliminary study for The Hunting of the Snark: the landing, i: 37
‘This is the
lair of the Mastermire’, iii: 35
Three
illustrations from Tom Thumb, ii: 29–31
Two
illustrations from The Oxford English Course for Secondary Schools, iv: 24–25
*‘War’
– No 12 (watercolour with bodycolour) ii: 3
Volume
4, issues i–iv
published between Autumn 1994
and Spring 1996
Articles
‘Arabesque in Motion’: the dreamscape of Gormenghast,
Ann Yeoman, i: 7–24
Atrophied Sexuality in Gormenghast, Desmond Mason, ii: 33–38
Desire
and Disappointment in Letters from a Lost Uncle, Alice Mills, iii: 7–28
Elysian
Fields, Hadean glooms: Titus Groan’s mythical quest, Rob Hindle, iv: 7–20
Feedback
iii: 40–41
The Great Stone Island: Gormenghast Castle and Sark, David Shayer,
iii: 29–36
How Not to Edit Mervyn Peake, Dainis Bisenieks, iv: 31–38
The Imagery
of Boy in Darkness, R Boerem and John Seland, ii: 5–20
Intertextuality
in Non-Realistic fictions: Novel, Film, Comic, Miles Fielder, ii: 21–32
Invitation
to Derrible: the Pye Project, David Shayer, iv: 21–26
‘Madness can be lovely’: the range and meaning of
Mervyn Peake’s nonsense verse, Duncan Barford, i: 29–52
News
Roundup i: 53–55
News Roundup ii: 45–46
News Roundup iii: 42–44
News Roundup iv: 51–52
Reviews
The David Glass Gormenghast in Malaysia, reviewed
by Chan Yuen-Li, iv: 43–45
Richard Harland, The Vicar of Morbing Vyle, reviewed by
Gavin O’Keefe, iii: 37–39
Mervyn Peake Society, Peake Papers, reviewed by Laurence
Bristow-Smith , ii: 39–41
A talk by Sebastian Peake, reviewed by Desmond Mason, iv: 39–42
Adam
Piette, Imagination at War, reviewed by Laurence Bristow-Smith, iv: 46–50
Stansky
and Abrahams, London’s Burning, reviewed by Adam Piette, ii: 42–44
Illustrations
Richard Middleton, A Gormenghast Portfolio, i: 25
– Sepulchrave
i: 26
– Flay
i: 27
– Barquentine
burns Steerpike i: 28
Mervyn Peake:
*Chinaman
(pencil on tracing paper) iii: back cover
*Ithell
Colquhoun (brush) iv: 5
Four
illustrations for Tom Thumb iv: 27–30
*Girls,
dog and galleon (line drawing) i: back cover
*A
greetings card iii: 5
*‘Have
a Pear’ (a pen-and-ink drawing) i: 5
*Man
in a turban (pencil) iii: 21
*Negro
Woman (sepia crayon) ii: back cover
*Three
heads (line drawing) ii: 48
*Two
nuns in Dubrovnik (ink and wash) iii: 23
*Urchin
and stone lion (sepia ink) iii: 22
Volume
5, issues i–iv
published between November
1996 and April 1998
Articles
Five Illustrated Nonsense Poems by MP. iv: 21–27. Reproduces
newly-discovered nonsense poems with their respective illustrations.
The Form of Peake’s Cave, GPW, iii: 28–38. Describes
the edition of Peake’s play, The Cave, published by the MPS, and
shows that they unfortunately reproduced an inferior typescript.
Gormenghast, a censored fairytale, Pierre-Yves Le Cam, ii: 23–41
Holocaust
Peake, Alice Mills. Iv: 28–44 On
Titus Alone.
Humour in the Titus Books, John Donaldson, iii: 11–27
Mervyn
and Maeve, Andrew Hall, iii: 5–10
Mervyn Peake and Memory, Charles Gilbert, iv: 5–20. A
study of how memories of P’s childhood in China permeate the Titus books.
Slightly revised from London Magazine, Vol. 35, Nos 9 & 10, December
1995/January 1996.
Mirrors, Water and Smells in Titus Alone, Alice Mills,
ii: 7–22
P J Lynch on the challenge of illustrating Peake, ii: 47–48.By
the illustrator of a new edition of Boy in Darkness.
News Roundup, i: 51–55
News Roundup, ii: 50–51
News Roundup, iii: 47
Recent Publications, iii: 44–46
Recent Publications, iv: 45–46
The Writing of Titus Groan, G. Peter Winnington, i: 19–48.What
was happening in MP’s life while he was writing TG and how it may have influenced
the book.
Reviews
The Faber Book of War Poetry, reviewed by Adam Piette,
iii: 39–43
A new edition of Boy in Darkness, reviewed by Diana Wynne
Jones, ii: 42–45
Illustrations
P J Lynch, from his Boy in Darkness:
–
The Goat,
ii: 46
– ‘His
hierophants . . . peered over one another’s shoulders’, ii: 49
Mervyn Peake:
Advertisement
for Jamaica Rum, i: back cover
*A
double portrait of Maeve Gilmore, iii: 5
*‘Again!
again! and yet again’ iv: 22
Fifteen
advertisements for the Brewers Society, i: 3–18
From
the MS of Titus Groan:
*Babies’
heads, i: 25
*A
typical manuscript page, i: 29
*Irma
‘screamed from her swanlike throat . . .’ i: 31
*A
mad cat, i: 35
*‘Mervyn
Peakeyweakey’ iii: 25
*The
mud dwellings beneath the castle walls, ii: 26–27
*‘I
cannot give you reasons’ iv: 27
*‘The
King of Ranga-Tanga-Roon’ iv: 24
*‘One
day when they had settled down’ iv: back cover
*Pen-and-ink
portrait, ii: 5
Portrait
of Pamela Hansford Johnson, ii: back cover
*Uncle
George iv: 23
*Unfinished
drawing of Billy Bottle, iii: back cover
Volume
6, issues i–iv
published between November
1998 and April 2000
Articles
Cinematic features in Gormenghast, Sophie Aymès,
i: 36–42
An Excellence of Peake, Michael Moorcock, iv: 7–14
‘The
Kings’: MP’s unpublished alphabetical book, Andrew Hall, i: 29–34
Literalized
Metaphors and the Comedy of Excess in Mr Pye, Alice Mills, iii: 25–39
MP, Oscar
Wilde and Aestheticism, Rob Hindle, i: 3–25
MP’s Letters to Chatto & Windus, ed. GPW, ii: 5–38
Mr
Pye: an Ovidian Curse for a Dichotomized Evangelist, Pierre François,
ii: 39–47
News Roundup i: 50–51
News Roundup ii: 51–53
News Roundup iii: 40–41
News Roundup iv: 46
The Paradox of Keda: a post-colonial (Gothic) reading of Gormenghast,
Andrew Ng, iv: 26–43
Recent publications iv: 44–45
Titus Alone, or the Spirit of Carnival ‘after the
catastrophe’, Pierre François, iii: 4–20
The Tragedy of Fuchsia Groan, E B Frohvet, i: 43–45
Reviews
The Audio book of Gormenghast reviewed by John Donaldson
iv: 21–24
The BBC’s ‘Gormenghast’ and The Art of Gormenghast reviewed by GPW iv: 15–20
Documentary Peake: the BBC ‘Bookmark’ programme reviewed
by Colin Greenland i: 46–49
Fine Peake-time Viewing: the opera of Gormenghast reviewed by
Rodney Milnes ii: 53–54
When the Penguin Speaks: the audio book of Titus Groan reviewed by John Donaldson ii: 48–50
Illustrations
*‘Bung-ho!’
iv: 14
*‘Concertina
Island’ iii: 42
*Drawing
of an old man iv: back cover
The
dustwrapper of Shapes & Sounds ii: 25
The
dustwrapper of The Past Must Alter ii: back cover
*‘The
King of I’ i: 35
*‘The
King of J’ i: 31
*‘The
King of R’ i: 33
*‘The
King of Y’ i: 28
*‘The
King of Z’ i: 26–27
*Mother
and Child ii: 29
*Portrait
(subject not known) i: back cover
*‘Uncle
Sam Says it with flowers’ iii: 3
*A
view of Cobo Bay. (Seascape, in colour) iii: 22–23
*‘Whoops!’
iv: 25
Volume
7, issues i–iv
published between November
2000 and April 2002
Articles
Despite his Evil Actions, Ian Johnson, ii: 9–18. On
why Steerpike remains attractive to the reader.
Frankly Missing the Target, Malcolm Yorke, iii: 18–29. A
response to Gerard Neill’s review of Yorke’s book in 7: ii.
Inspiration and Astonishment: Peake’s influence on Perdido
Street Station, Alice Mills, iv: 19–24
News Roundup, ii: 38–39
News Roundup, iii: 30–31
News Roundup, iv: 30
Parodies and Poetical Allusions, G. Peter Winnington, iv: 25–29. Identifies some of the poems that MP parodied.
Peake,
Knole, and Orlando, G. Peter Winnington, i: 24–29. Another
possible source of inspiration for Gormenghast.
Rebel without a Cause: the cultural matrix of the Titus books, Colin Manlove,
iv: 7–18
Recent Publications, ii: 39
Recent Publications, iii: 32–39
Recent Publications, iv: 30–33
The Rime and the Reason: Peake,
Doré, and the Ancient Mariner, Gavin O’Keefe,
i: 6–12
Swelter’s Song: a previously unpublished
poem by Mervyn Peake, ii: 5–8
‘White Mules
at Prayer’, a previously unpublished poem by Mervyn Peake, i: 17–22
Reviews
Irmin Schmidt’s Fantasy Opera ‘Gormenghast’
on CD, reviewed by Richard Sisson, i: 14–16
Letters
from a Lost Uncle, reviewed by GPW (within Recent Publications) iii: 34–38
Malcolm
Yorke’s Mervyn Peake: My Eyes Mint Gold, reviewed by Gerard Neill,
ii: 22–33
Titus Alone: A New Life (i.e. Peake Papers II), reviewed
by Tanya Gardiner-Scott, ii: 34–36
Seriously Weird: Papers on the Grotesque (ed. Alice Mills),
reviewed by Nick Freeman, ii:
37
Peake’s Alice, and Witchcraft, reviewed
by Gerard Neill, iii: 3–17. The
Chris Beetles exhibition of September 2001 and the special edition of Peake’s
illustrations for Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass.
Illustrations
*Audrey Brown ii: 21
*Barbara Brown ii: 20
*Fabian ii: 3
*Fantastic portrait i: 3
*Flay and Steerpike watch Swelter ii: 7
*For Treasure Island iii: 21. Fully worked 1st state of
final illustration
From Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass iii: 5, 9,
11, 12, 13
From Letters from a Lost Uncle iii: 35, 36, 37 contrasting
the 1976 and 2001 editions
*From Witchcraft in England iii: 14 (untrimmed, previously
unpublished in this state)
‘The
Jailor and the Jaguar’ from Rhymes without Reason iv: 27
*John Longmire (attributed to Peake) iii: back cover
‘*The
Lazy Spinner’ iv: 6
*Marginal Sketches i: 30
*Monica Hall ii: back cover
*‘Mother Holle’ iv: 5
‘Old
Ratty’iv: 31
*Puzzled Peasant iv: 3
*Rottcodd in his hammock i: 18–19
*‘Rumplestiltskin’
iv: 4
*‘Simpleton’
iv: back cover
*‘The
Spotted Prangle’i: 23
*Three
stages of an illustration for Treasure Island ii: 26–28. Previously
unpublished sketches and an annotated proof.
*‘Women
were more curved in 3007 BC’ i: 13
Volume
8, issues i–iv
published between November
2002 and April 2004
Articles
‘Battersea’: an early version of ‘The Cocky Walkers’,
iv: 7–8
Blakeston’s Hollow Review, by Gavin L. O’Keefe, iv: 19–28
Burning the Globe: another attempt to situate Gormenghast, G. Peter Winnington
ii: 12–23
‘The Cocky Walkers’: Youth Crime and Social Comment,
Nick Freeman, iv: 9–18
Diagnosing Mervyn Peake’s Neurological
Condition, Demetrios J. Sahlas iii: 4–20
‘Differing Passions’:
Andreas Capellanus and Mervyn Peake, Jamie A. Hughes iii: 29–38
Editorial,
ii: 7–8
Feedback, i: 5
Mervyn Peake and the cinema, by GPW
iv: 29
News Roundup i: 46
News Roundup ii: 24
News Roundup iii: 43–47
Peake and English Fantasy: some possible influences, Colin Manlove, i: 35–45
‘A Quality of Flux’: the formal logic of Mervyn Peake’s
illustrations and texts, Sophie Aymès, i: 6–34
Recent & Forthcoming
Publications, i: 46
Recent Publications, ii: 25–27
Recent Publications,
iii: 39–42
Recent Publications, iv: 30
‘Vikings’, MP’s
first published poem, II: 9
Review
MP’s Figures of Speech (2003) reviewed by GPW,
iii: 39–41
Illustrations
*‘Ate
que a morte nos separe’ [Until death us do part]: a propaganda postcard
ii: 5 [recto], 6 [verso]
*Brush
portrait of a boy ii: 15
Dog-man,
for Footfruit iii: 13
The
Dickens World: cover drawing
iii: back cover
*‘Ennui’
iv: 6
Figure
with cats iii: 14
Flying
figure (1953) iii: 12
Figures
of Speech: dustwrapper design (1954)
iii: 40
Figures
of Speech: dustwrapper design (2003) iii: 42
from Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor i: 16, 18, 20
from
The Craft of the Lead Pencil i: 27
from
Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm (B10) i: 12,
31
from
Letters from a Lost Uncle i: 24
from
More Prayers and Graces i: 16
from
the MS of Titus Groan i: 26
from
Prayers and Graces i: 12, 20
from
Ride a Cock-Horse i: 30
from
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (B12)
i: 17, 25, 28
*Head
on hand iv: 3
*‘Helping
her undress’ (1956) iii: 3
Menu
design for a PEN dinner in honour of Hermon Ould (1946) iv: 17–18
Mr Turveydrop: a
character sketch from Bleak House (B24) iii: 45
*‘O
boy, isn’t life good’ – from a letter ii: 11
Prancing
figure (D87) iii: 21
*Reclining
woman iv: 4
*Sebastian:
seven drawings of Peake’s son as a baby iii: 22-28
Spring,
by Shakespeare iv: back cover
*Swelter
using his navel as a salt cellar ii: back cover
*‘To
Leslie from Mervyn, Feb 10 1940’: a portrait of Maeve ii: 14
*‘To
Ruthven Todd’ i: back cover
*Young
man and bearded man iv: 5
Volume 9,
issues i–iv
published between October 2004
and April 2006
Articles
Forthcoming books iv: 32
From Walton to Gormenghast by Mark Robertson,
iv: 23–28
Godless religion and maimed earldom in Titus Groan,
Pierre François, 1: 5–34
Kuling, Peake’s Birthplace by
GPW, with photographs by Max Stauber, iv: 8–22
London Fantasy by Mervyn
Peake, iv: 3–7
Lost Lubin: a comparison of The Adventures of Uncle
Lubin and Letters from a Lost Uncle, Henry Eliot, i: 35–45
MP’s Two radio Plays for Christmas ii: 5–31 Introduced
by GPW (pages 5 & 6) and transcribed from the BBC scripts, showing the differences
between ‘A Christmas Commission’ (recorded October 1954) and ‘The
Voice of One’ (recorded December 1956). See Part
E.
News Roundup i: 46
News Roundup ii: 33–34
Recent
News and forthcoming events iii: 30–32
Recent news and forthcoming events
iv: 30
Recent Publications iii: 29
Recent publications iv: 31
Severing
Relations Suggests that the illustration of ‘severing relations’
in Figures of Speech was influenced by a cartoon by ‘Fix’ in Lilliput. iii: 35
The Things they Say i: 46–47
The Things
they Say ii: 34–35
The Things they Say iii: 33
The Things they Say
iv: 34
Illustrations
Felix Kelly (‘Fix’): More Nonsense Clichés iii: 35
Mervyn Peake:
*‘Dr
Jekyll’ i: back cover
*Frame
for Kings from A to Z iii: 3
*Horned
Figure i: 3
Line
drawings from Lilliput, Strand, London Mystery Magazine, and World Review iii: 4–28
*Little
girl ii: back cover
*Portrait
of Monica Macdonald (aka ‘Woman in Red’) iii: back cover
*Proof title-page
of Treasure Island iv: back cover
*Standing
studio nude ii: 32
*Two
portraits ii: 3 & 4
Heath Robinson: From The Adventures of Uncle
Lubin i: 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42
Max Stauber: Photographs of Kuling iv: 15–19
& 21
Volume
10, issues i–iv
published between October
2006 and April 2008
Articles
Fantasies of War in Peake’s Uncollected Verse, R.W. Maslen iv: 5–23
Forthcoming books i: 52
Forthcoming Publications ii: 45
Four Old Men
(aka The Widowers) – an unfinished play by MP – ii: 14–27
The Greenhorn (an unfinished play by MP) iv: 26–34
In
Search of Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake iii: 3–4
Isle Escape (an
unfinished play by MP) ii: 6–13
MP’s Unfinished Plays (The Greenhorn
and The Teddy Boys) ed. by GPW iv: 26–39
News Roundup ii: 35–37
News Roundup iii: 48
Peake’s Unpublished
Plays (Isle Escape, Four Old Men/The Widowers and ‘Private
Language’) ed. by GPW ii: 3–27
Performing
the ‘Peakeresque’. Dramatic ways of introducing Peake to students
in higher education, Stuart Olesker ii: 28–34
‘Private Language’
(a previously unpublished complete dialogue by MP) ii: 4–5
Putting together
a new book on Peake, Alison Eldred i: 43–45
Recent and Forthcoming
Publications iv: 40–44
Recent News iv: 40
Recent Publications ii:
37–40
Recent Publications iii: 45–47
Stasis and Rebellion
in Gormenghast. Part I – Stasis, Pierre François iii: 5–23
The Teddy Boys (unfinished play by MP) iv: 35–39
The Things they
Say i: 51
The Things they Say ii: 41–48
The Things they Say iv: 45–46
Those Wicked Doctors: a farce in three acts (a complete play) by MP i:
5–42
The Widowers (aka Four Old Men) – an unfinished
play by MP – ii: 14–27
Reviews
The BBC Gormenghast
Revisited by Michael Lacey iii 41–44
Alice Mills’s Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake (2006) reviewed by Pierre François
i: 46–50
The Art of the Matter: GPW’s The Voice of the Heart (2006) reviewed by R.W. Maslen iii 26–40
Illustrations
Maeve Gilmore: Dustwrapper design for Chinese White by Burgess Drake i: back cover
Mervyn Peake:
*a copy of Gormenghast presented to W. H. Auden iv: 3
Head of a girl: line drawing ii: back cover
*Illustration
for Shapes & Sounds iv: 41
*Portrait
of Clare iv: 25
*Portrait
of P.G.Smith iii 46
*Portrait
of Sebastian iv: 24
*Two
portraits of Eithne Henson iii 24–25
*‘We
are the thoughtless people’ iv: 23
Volume
11, issues i–iv
published between October
2008 and April 2010
Articles
Brief Encounters:
a letter from Mary Picton to Sebastian Peake i: 36–38
John Grome recalls MP in a letter to Maeve Gilmore iii: 6–10
Manifold Basket,
an unfinished play by MP, ed. and introduced by GPW ii: 3–32
MP’s correspondence with Sir Kenneth Clark iii: 11–35
MP’s illustrations for Radio Times iv: 12–21
Mr & Mrs Peake hold a party, Michael Moorcock iv: 5–11
News Roundup
ii: 55
News Roundup iii: 37
New Roundup iv: 22–27
Raymond Briggs recalls meeting MP i: 35
Recent and forthcoming publications
i: 43–45
Some recent Peake Letters, edited by GPW iv: 28–35
Stasis and Rebellion in Gormenghast. Part II – Rebellion
(Thanatos), Pierre François i: 5–34
Stasis and Rebellion in
Gormenghast. Part III – Rebellion (Eros), Pierre François ii: 33–52
The
Things they Say i: 46–47
The
Things they Say ii: 53–55
The Things they Say iii: 38–40
Review
The Collected
Poems of Mervyn Peake reviewed by Nick Freeman i: 39–42
Illustrations
Leslie Hurry: a painting incorporating ‘September 1939’ by MP i: 23
Mervyn Peake:
*Accordion player (oil painting 1934) iv: 4
*‘Allez-Oop!’ an endpaper sketch signed ‘Squeak’ iv: back cover
*Bellgrove
in front of the cricket stumps (from the MS of Manifold Basket) ii: 29
Book plate for Nehemiah Asherson iv: 33
*Cockerel, an oil painting by MP from the mid-1940s iii: 36 (in colour)
*Cutting hay on Sark (1934), oil painting i: 24–25
*Flyleaf
dedication to ‘Elizabeth’ in a copy of Captain Slaughterboard Drops
Anchor i: back cover
Illustrations for Radio Times iv: 12–21
*Lady Alexandra Roche ii: back cover
London (from the cover of Shapes & Sounds, 1974) iii: 3
Man
with scythe (1934) i: 25
*MP – a photograph from the early 1950s iii: 4
*MP – a portrait from memory by John Grome iii: 5 (in colour)
*A
pool on Sark or Guernsey, oil on canvas (ca. 1934) i: 26 (in colour)
*Tintageou (oil painting 1933) iv: 3 (in colour)
Two versions of Timothy Twitch iv: 25
*White horse (oil painting) iv: 34
Volume
12, issues i–iv
published between October
2010 and April 2012
Articles
Alice and Tenniel and Me: a radio talk by MP iii: 4–8
The Artist’s World: a radio talk by MP ii: 5–7
Behind Twisted Woods of Thorn: pastoral themes in the Titus books, Oliver Plaschka i: 29–47
Book Illustration: a radio talk by MP ii: 15–21
Finding Gormenghast and the Groans in China, Peter Neville-Hadley iii: 28–38
Forthcoming events i: 50–52
The Hacker Portrait, by GPW iv: 19–30
Johnny Butterfield and other projected stories, ed. GPW iv: 4–18
Mervyn at the microphone, Kay Fuller ii: 10–14
News Roundup ii: 45–47
News Roundup iii: 43–49
News Roundup iv: 40–43
Peake at Southport: published and unpublished verses from the seafront, 1942, R. W. Maslen i: 3–24
The Reader Takes Over: a radio discussion ii: 25–41
The Things They Say ii: 47–48
The Things They Say iii: 51–52
The Things They Say iv: 44
What it is to be human: a report on the MP Conference [at Chichester, July 2011], Peter Nixon iii: 39–42
What it was like, Clare Penate iii: 19–20
A World of Nonsense, Vanessa Bonnet iv: 31–39
Reviews
Sara Wasson’s Urban Gothic of the Second World War reviewed by Adam Piette i: 48–50
The Naxos audio book of Titus Groan reviewed by John Donaldson ii: 42–44
Clare Peake’s Under a Canvas Sky reviewed by Gerard Neill iii: 16–19
Complete Nonsense (ed. Maslen & Winnington) reviewed by Stuart Olesker iii: 21–25
Illustrations
*Portrait of Dennis Cleary (in colour) ii: 24
*A cat from the MS of Titus Alone iii: 20
*‘Caught by the Camera’ (in colour) iv: 30
*‘The Christening of the Thisellwhithle’ iv: 20
*Companions iii: back cover
*A Cow on the beach iv: 20
*Crantock Beach (oil painting) iv:
19
*Dancing donkey (from the Sunday Books, in colour) i: 28
*Dog barks at woman ii: 3
Dorothy Webster Gordon (portrait, in colour) ii: 25
*Fencing with the canvas iv: 23
*Full-length portrait from imagination (in colour) iv: 25
*Giraffe (from the Sunday Books, in colour) i: 25
*Going surfing iv: 30
*The Hacker Prize portrait of Mary Brownlee (in colour) iv: 26
*Humanized giraffe with animalized man ii: 26
Kay Fuller (portrait) ii: 13
*Late drawing iv: 39
*‘The Lifted Chin’ iv: back cover
*A leafy lane on Sark (oil painting, in colour) iii: 50
*Maeve Gilmore (portrait) iv: 3
*Mary Brownlee dejected iv: 28
*Playing golf on the beach iv: 29
*A portrait from the MS of Titus Alone (Box 7 ii) iv: 45
*Portrait in wash, unknown sitter iii: 5
*Posing for the Hacker portrait (in colour) iv: 24
*Repairing the roof of Sark Mill iii: 26–27
*St Christopher from Fabian’s Sunday Book iii: 47
*St Francis of Assisi from Fabian’s Sunday Book iii: 48
*Seaside with donkey and figures ii: 22
*Self portrait signed Hacker iii: 14
*Singing on the beach iv: 27
*Swordfish (from the Sunday Books, in colour) i: 26–7
*Talking it over ii: 28
*Thoughtful man ii: back cover
*Tiger head ii: 48
*Turkey head ii: 23
Volume
13, issues i–iv
published between October
2012 and April 2014;
Articles
‘Boy in Darkness’: from parody to satire, Pierre
François iii: 26–40
From Pictures to Prose: how Goya and Rembrandt contributed to the Titus Books, Garance Coggins i: 3–15
The Grotesque in ‘Danse Macabre’ by Nahid Shahbazi Moghadam iv: 15–25
Mervyn Peake’s Letters to Maeve Gilmore, GPW
iii: 5–21
News Roundup, ii: 40
News Roundup, iii:44–45
Recent books, ii: 21–29
Reproducing Peake’s MS drawings: some thoughts and suggestions, Garance Coggins ii: 3–19
Sebastian Peake: a eulogy, Michael Moorcock i: 21
Sebastian Peake: some reflections, Stuart Olesker i: 28–29
The Things They Say, ii: 30–39
The Things They Say, iii: 41–44
The Things They Say, iv: 29–32
Reviews
Collected Works of MP (Queen Anne Press), ii: 24–28
Children’s Picturebooks: the art of visual storytelling (Laurence King), ii: 28–29
‘Gormenghast’: the board game iv: 26–28
Illustrations
For Alice in Wonderland:
*– Frog iv: 8
*– Mouse iv: 9
The Ancient Mariner with the Albatross from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner i: 9
*The Barking Hounds (pen-and-ink) ii: 3
*The Black Cap (portrait in oils) ii: 21
for Bleak House:
*– Joe the crossing sweeper iii: 25
*– Mr Gridley iv: 12
*– Mrs Guppy iv: 10
*– one of Mrs Pardiggle’s sons, presumably Alfred iv: 14
*– two of Mrs Pardiggle’s sons iii: 23 and 24
*– Mr Snaggsby iv: 13
*– Mr Turveydrop iv:11
*Clare about to cry (from an undated letter to Maeve, ca mid-August 1950)
iii: 15
*Clown from
Fabian’s Sunday Book i: 22
Dancing Sailor from The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb i: 3
*‘Dark Portrait’ i: 18
*Figure in ink and watercolour iii: 3
*Female face (from a letter to Maeve dated 19 April 1962) iii: 20
*Giuseppe (from ‘Sally Devius’) iii: 47
Harlequin Phoenix (frontispiece) iii: back cover
*If Pigs Could Fly (pen-and-ink) ii: 39
*Irish horse with protection against flies (from a letter to Maeve dated 10
July 1956) iii: 17
*Maeve and Sebastian (or
Fabian) i: 25
MS sketch of Steerpike ii: 11
MS sketch of Steerpike ii: 13
MS sketch of Keda’s crag ii: 14
*Oval Face iii: 48
*Portrait of a young girl ii: 19
*Portrait of Caroline Norton iii: 22
*Portrait of Vivien Leigh i: 19
*Profile of a girl iii: 45
*The Red Scarf (watercolour portrait) ii: 20
*St Bartholomew’s Church, Fingest (in colour) iii:46
*Self-portrait as a hospital patient (from a letter to Maeve postmarked
March 1958) iii:19
The sketch of Keda’s crag from the Vintage edition ii: 15
*Three friendly monsters (from letters to Maeve dated 16 March 1958; 11 May
1961; and 26 April 1962) iii: 21
*Small boy dressed as a clown i: 20
From Treasure Island:
– Ben Gunn and Jim i: 23;
– Jim on the
bowsprit of the Hispaniola i: 26;
– *preliminary sketch
for the same i: 27
*Valentine card for Maeve (1953) iii: 15
‘A Yard of Ale’ or ‘A Tall Order’ ii: back cover
Illustrations by others
Blake, William, frontispiece for Songs of Experience i: 3
Cranston, Johanna, ‘The Banishment of Flay’ iv: 39
Goya, ‘The Sleep of Reason’ i: 7
——, ‘Spell’ i: 4
Miller, Ian, ‘Gormenghast’ i: 16–17
——, ‘The Tower of Flints’ i: back cover
Rembrandt, ‘Judas Repentant’ (detail) i: 9
——, ‘Titus at his Desk’ i: 11
Tierney, Scarlett, ‘Aunty Flo’ iv: 33
Tyler, H.L., Dr Prunesquallor: ‘Pick your Poison’ iv: 37
——, ‘Prunesquallor’s Journey’ iv: 36
——, Steerpike: ‘How White and Scarlet is that Face’ (embroidery) iv: 38
——, ‘A sunflower in Gormenghast’ (embroidery) iv: 38
Velten, Morgane, ‘The Countess in bed’ iv: 35
——, ‘Steerpike seducing Irma Prunesquallor’ iv: 34
Volume
14, issues i—iii
October
2014—October 2015
Articles Reviews Illustrations
Dark and Deathless Rabble of Long Shadows: Peake, Dickens, Tolkien, and
‘this dark hive called London’ by Hadas Elber-Aviram ii: 7–32
Ernest Thesiger as a Source of Inspiration for Dr Prunesquallor by H. L.
Tyler iii: 11–14
Fuchsia’s Origins by G. Peter Winnington iii: 15–20
News Roundup ii: 33–40
Mr Loftus, or And a Horse of Air. A play in 2 acts of 4 scenes, by Mervyn Peake
i: 3–105
Peake’s Ballads: ‘The Touch o’ the Ash’ and The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
by G. Peter Winnington iii: 21–33
The Things They Say ii: 41–47
The Things They Say iii: 34–38
Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake (i.e. Mervyn Peake’s father; original title: Memoirs of a Doctor in China)
i: 107–117
For
Bleak House:
*Mr Guppy ii: 3
*Mrs Pardiggle ii: 5
*Mrs Pardiggle’s three sons ii:4
Dancing Sailor from The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb iii: 29
Four Nursery Rhymes iii: 5–8
*Landgirl iii: 3
*Model in a Black Coat iii: 17
Old Man and Child iii: 28
* Previously unpublished artwork by Peake is preceded by an asterisk.
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