JARMAN

[Printed programme; Lindsay Kemp, dancer, choreographer and mime artist associated with David Bowie.] Autograph Inscription to illustrated programme for his company’s production of ‘Flowers / Salomé’, with article by David Haughton.

Author: 
Lindsay Kemp [Lindsay Keith Kemp] (1938-2018), dancer, choreographer and mime artist associated with Derek Jarman, David Bowie, Kate Bush and Vivian Stanshall; David Haughton
Publication details: 
The Lindsay Kemp Company. The Round House [London, 1974].
£120.00

See his entry in the Oxford DNB, and his Guardian obituary by Kemp’s collaborator Michael Coveney, 26 August 2018. Sprawling autograph inscription in green ink (‘with love for Paul from lindsay X’) across top of centre pages of an attractive programme for Kemp’s celebrated treatment of the works by Jean Genet and Oscar Wilde, with numerous photographs and illustrations: 16pp, 8vo, in black and white, on glossy paper, stapled into glossy red covers. Full page introductory piece on the Lindsay Kemp Company by David Haughton. See Image of autograph.

[Dorothy Jarman (pseudonyms ‘Ann Trent’, ‘Dorothy Desana’, ‘Davide Sernicoli’, ‘Ann Carlton’, ‘Elaine Crosse’), prolific English romantic novelist.] Typed Letter Signed, as ‘Dorothy Desana’, to autograph collector Eileen Cond, describing her novels.

Author: 
Dorothy Jarman (1902-1978; pseudonyms ‘Ann Trent’, ‘Dorothy Desana’, ‘Davide Sernicoli’, ‘Ann Carlton’, ‘Elaine Crosse’), romantic novelist [Eileen Margaret Cond (1911-1984), autograph collector]
Publication details: 
17 July 1961; Crosselands, Salisbury Road, Carshalton, Surrey.
£50.00

For such a prolific author, it is odd that so little is to be gleaned about Dorothy Jarman (1902-1978; Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Letters, widow of Roy H. Jarman), who claims in this letter, written as ‘Dorothy Desana’, that ‘Ann Trent’ is her pseudonym, while in the 1971 edition of ‘The Author’s and Writer’s Who’s Who’, ‘Ann Trent’ is given as her real name, while ‘Dorothy Desana’ is one of four pseudonyms. Whatever the case, twenty-six books were published under the name ‘Davide Sernicoli’ between 1936 and 1953, with twenty more books published by her under other names.

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