Here are 322 letters and 32 short stories, most of which are signed "Wallace Stort", once published in the magazine "London Life" between 1924 and 1941.
The letters almost always involved testimonies from usualy young and nice looking women who are amputees, or otherwise "crippled", in general quite happy with their condition of being "limbless", or from men who have been involved with such women. Many letters are recommendations and advises from fellow amputee women, about the wear of prosthesis or fashion for the disabled woman. Whether those testimonies are real or fake is left to the appreciation of the reader, but are nevertheless always pleasantly old-fashioned to read.
The short stories, most of them signed by Wallace Stort, are very likely to be fictions, but the author explains that they are based on true stories, that he lived personally. Whatever, they are delicious to read for the admirer of beautyful "Monopede", as they called them back in the 30's.
To know more about London Life's letters and short stories, read this article on the OverGround wbesite.
Many thanks to the anonymous friend who preserved all those issues of London Life, scanned and OCRed the articles (or retyped them?), for us to be able to enjoy those marvelous stories. OverGround would be pleased to hear from this person. If one of our readers happens to have the original, we would pleased to get in touch: contact@overground.be
| London Life's Letters and Short Stories by Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 [3] | 1925 [1] | 1926 [4] | 1927 [1] | 1928 [18] | 1929 [10] |
| 1930 [5] | 1931 [22] | 1932 [14] | 1933 [23] | 1934 [13] | 1935 [37] |
| 1936 [22] | 1937 [28] | 1938 [29] | 1939 [33] | 1940 [64] | 1941 [27] |