GORDON Lady Marjorie
Wee Willie Winkie edited by Lady Marjorie Gordon and Her Mother
The editor Marjorie was 11 years old at the outset of this magazine (1891), explaining the presence of her mother, Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen, on the title page. From midway through the magazine’s run, Lord Aberdeen was appointed the Governor General of Canada, and the family removed to Montreal, and although it continued to be printed in Dingwall and published from London and Edinburgh, there is as much Canadian as Scottish material in the magazine from there on. Ishbel was a great supporter of women’s organisations, in the style of the time, and played an active role in her husband’s work: his lordship is modestly famous for another reason, as his anthology Jokes cracked by Lord Aberdeen (1929) has a cult following for the wooden-ness of the humour, and a certain lack of nimbleness is evident in Wee Willie Winkie itself.
Large attractive gift inscription on front free endpaper (“Xmas 1896”), light sunning to spine and a portion of the back board, internally uniformly browned.
