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But until then, it is available in PDF form here.

How to use the Index (and what you won’t find)

• In general, books are listed by authors, not titles, so you won’t find an entry for Five Children and It under F: look under Nesbit, E. Thus if all you know is the title of the work and you’ve forgotten who wrote it, a Find command (Control + F) will take you to all the occurrences of the title you’re after.

• If you still can’t find it, it may only crop up in (say) a general article on E.Nesbit which has a bibliography; it won’t have its own reference.

• The names of individual contributors aren’t listed, apart from those who have also written books reviewed in Folly—this makes them Authors, which merits an index entry, but still doesn’t include Folly writings.

• Where a contributor has merely listed a number of writers with no other content (“I used to borrow Streatfeild, Sutcliff and Forest from the library”), these references won’t be listed.

 How it works

• References are Folly issue number in bold~page number in standard font: so

• 15~13 means Folly 15 page 13.
• 15~13, 20 means Folly 15, pages 13 and 20.
• CS means ‘Christmas Special’ - the numbers tell you whether it’s 1, 2, 3 or 4.
• Book, article and periodical titles are in italics; series titles in standard font.

• Articles, stories, verse, etc, are listed by title, followed by the type of piece and its author:

     Things do so happen to us: A study of the Lockett Stories by M.E.Atkinson (article: Dennis Bird) 11~3

and also by the author referred to, for example:

     Atkinson, M. E. (article: Dennis Bird) 11~3

But you won’t normally find separate entries for each book mentioned in an article, with the exception of desert island books. ‘Inc bib’ means that the article includes a bibliography (which may be partial). You will find separate entries for some books by the same author, depending on the context of the reference (eg, a plot summary in Letters and Queries would be referenced, but not a quiz question or answer.

• Reviews are listed by the author of the work under review; so don’t look up Behind the Chalet School under B, look up McClelland, H. instead; or under Reviews in the Rs. Reviewers are indicated by initials: a key to these (and to the writers of obituaries) is provided below.

• Pseudonyms caused a bit of a problem. They should all be cross-referenced, normally to the name we are used to; but don’t take that as gospel.

• Hyphenated names are listed by the first name, so you will find EBD under B for Brent-Dyer.

• Double-barrelled names are listed by the last name, so you will find DFB under B for Bruce.

•  Names beginning with particles (de, du, le, von, van etc) are indexed under those particles.

• Mac, Mc and M' are all alphabeticised as though they were ‘Mac’.

• What’s missing is an entry on…well, you’ll all have your own. Just break it to us gently.

Note 1: Please inform Sue of all the errors and omissions you find

 Note 2: You are very welcome to print out all or part of this index, or link to it from your own website: it isn't copyrighted.