Citations:fanne

English citations of fanne

Noun: "female fan"

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• 1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia‎^[1], Fannes, page 31:

  Fannes — Pronounced the same as "fans," but used in writing to mean fem fans.

• 1947 January, Startling Stories, volume 14, number 3, page 107:

  If there are any fans in North Carolina, would you please get in touch with me at 200 Williamsboro St., Oxford, N. C. If you even read StF you'll do. You don't have to be an actifan, just so you read StF. Y'see, we're trying to form a statewide organization of fans and fannes in North Carolina to give StF a wider range in the Old North State, and generally improve fen conditions here.

• 1950 October, “[letter column]”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 37, number 1, page 144:

  My plea is this—is there somewhere in fandom another femme fan who desperately wants to go to the Norwescon but whose finances are not only scanty but hard to come by? If so, would that femme fan care to share hotel expenses with another fanne in the same situation?

• 1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life‎^[2], →ISSN, page 127:

  A little more than a week ago two fen and one fanne left for London as delegates to a big gathering formally billed as the Science Fiction Festival Convention but more intimately described as a fanference.
  Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen ... many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.

• 1956 May, Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 57, number 3, page 149:

  Or will he be the anthropologist who first studies the science-fiction world: writers and editors, fen and fenne?

• 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Cyclone”, in The BNF of Iz‎^[3]:

  Dorothy lived in the middle of the great western plains, far away from any other fans. She was a very lonely little fanne, who could not afford to go to the annual World Conventions, and had been only to one Oklacon.