Ann Fonsweer

 A gentleman in Bedfordshire was listening to Cambridge105 Radio ,   and heard a mention of a reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist . He had lived in Apple Limeway briefly (where the events in the diary take place) so he investigated further and found an image on the title page of the book . Summer Diary of a Lady Artist frontispiece. Something struck him about the "logo", presumably of the publishing company: Two Sisters Publishing . Two Sisters Publishing logo It reminded him of something, something his grandfather had, an old black and white photo. He contacted me by email (at ckfonsweer@gmail.com ), with the scanned photo attached: Ann Fonsweer's cabinet?   The photo is old and the photographer was inexpert but it is clear what reminded him of the logo of Two Sisters Publishing. The gentleman thinks the photograph was taken in the 1950s or 1960s. It seems to be a (wooden?) cabinet, but what is inside is impossible to guess. And why his grandfather took a photo ...

 Here is the frontispiece of the original edition of "The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist" by Ann Fonsweer. "This is an illustrated diary of revenge, violent protection of the innocent, and cougar love. In the interwar years, in Cambridgeshire, Ann Fonsweer has stolen an education by piggybacking on the private schooling of her brother. When the diary starts, brother and sister are estranged, and Ann survives on what money he sends her. The diary reveals these financial money worries as well as the anger she feels towards her previous lovers. She is attracted to a youth in her village, who reveals to her a future crime. She decides to prevent the crime. Every page of the diary is accompanied by an odd pen and ink drawing, secretive hard to interpret."   A reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist ( An illustrated account of cougar love and the protection of the innocent ) is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com , ISBN 978-1-4466-7410-9. Contact: ckf...

 Not only is this a rare edition of Ann Fonsweer's Summer Diary Of A Lady Artist, but it is the only survivor of a limited (and neccessarily private) print run. The book was discovered in the Two Sisters Publishing archive .   Douglas Ainslee must have got hold of a copy because he said of the book: " This is a dark and mysterious text disguised as a diary, and there a sort of infinity in the spaces between the words. "   A reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com , ISBN 978-1-4466-7410-9. Contact: ckfonsweer@gmail.com

 The "archive" is actually a large drawer in an old house in in Edinburgh. Ann Fonsweer, who we know lived in Apple Limeway near Cambridge one eventful summer, was skilled in strange ink pen drawings, and here are two of the newly discovered ones (both untitled but both dated 1935). Her style is unmistakable both in subject matter and execution. One copy of the published book was also found in this archive.   A reprint of The Summer Diary of a Lady Artist is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com , ISBN 978-1-4466-7410-9