Alessandra Trotta: the photograph on the front cover is explained at the end
of the Cromwell lecture by Richard Newbury (page 11). I add a little personal
memory: in 2002 I was trying to help two lovely members of MethSoc at Wesley
Church who had just graduated from Cambridge University and were
looking for a place to do voluntary work for one year: Alastair and Rachel.
I always thought of Sicily and made a few enquiries and the person who
answered within seconds with great enthusiasm was the new Director of La
Noce, young Alessandra! Al and Rachel are now married, have two wonderful
children and are both members of our Committee, and Alessandra is the
Moderator of Tavola valdese.
With every blessing, ESN, Editor
Anne Chippindale
In the early 1980s a friend introduced me to a family she thought fitted ours
perfectly: young children, academic interests, love of adventurous holidays
abroad, eccentricity … We became good friends with the Chippindales and I
was impressed that they had camped in the Alps in the middle of nowhere with
small children, while Chris was studying prehistoric rock
engravings on Monte Bego. What was even more astonishing
was that during our first encounter Anne asked me if I
knew her former boss, Germano Facetti, at Penguin Books,
where she worked in the early 1970s. What were the chances
that a 30-something Torinese would know a Milanese over
20 years older than her and who had been in London all the
1950s and 1960s? Actually … I did know him! And I had met
him exactly at Penguin in 1968, as recommended by a much
older friend, a German member of the Italian Resistance,
related to the von Moltke family … Facetti was responsible
for dramatically changing the design of the Penguin book
covers and Anne was his assistant.
The Chippindales came also to visit us in Torre Pellice and, since they were
both editing and producing Antiquity, the journal of archaeology, when in
the early 1990s I was looking for a new printer for the Waldensian Review, I
asked for their help. Chris designed one issue, then Anne took over and has
produced it ever since.
Despite reading French and European Literature, since her time at Warwick,
Anne has been involved in editing, layout, production of various journals,
papers and several books, academic and otherwise. She has been a member
of the Lucy Cavendish Singers since 2008 and enjoys gardening, knitting,
sewing, cooking, walking, grandchildren …
ES
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