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SUMMARY:The Mystery of the Haberdasher's Scissors: Dr. Alison Habens and Matt Wingett
DESCRIPTION:Local writers and researchers\, Alison Habens and Matt Wingett\, claim to have discovered an extraordinary fact: three famous literary figures of the 19th Century\, H.G.Wells\, Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling met each other in the early 1880s\, in the old Drapery Bazaar\, Hide’s Emporium\, on King’s Road in Southsea. Even more amazing\, they were involved in a dark mystery that might have come straight from one of their own stories. Hear it unfold\, through a series of extracts from their autobiographies\, solve a few clues yourself – and work out where the boundary between true history and pure invention sits… \n \nAlison Habens \nAlison is best known for her novels Dreamhouse\, Lifestory and The True Picture.  She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Portsmouth and leads the Portsmouth Writers Hub; a community interest company that brings University writers and writing groups together. \n \nMatt Wingett\nMatt Wingett is the publisher\, editor\, designer\, local historian and general dog’s body\nof Life Is Amazing\, dedicated to publishing books. He has always been interested in\nwriting\, having started his first story when he was six years old. At various times\nsince then\, he has looked back\, wondered what the hell he was doing spending so\nmuch time writing instead of having a life\, given up\, taught English in Egypt\, came\nback again\, ran a computer company and a successful rare book dealership – and\nfinally thrown up his hands in defeat and said: “I give up! I can’t help writing\, so I’ll\nhave to just get on with it.” \n
URL:https://www.chichesterliterarysociety.org/event/the-mystery-of-the-haberdashers-scissors-dr-alison-habens-and-matt-wingett/
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