Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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8919 146th Street Edmonton AB T5R OV7 July 29 1991 The Editor Globe and Mail 444 Front Street West , Toronto Ontario M5V 289 Dear Sir , Carol Bishop's " critique " of my biography , The Salome Dancer : The Life and Times of Maud Allan ( " Books " section , July 27 ) is so jaundiced by a personal vendetta that it requires a rejoinder . Ms. Bishop's comments appear to be self - motivated and emotional , rather than objective and scholarly , because I have declined to give her access to Maud Allan's personal papers . She spends an entire paragraph deploring my reluctance to share my " cache of original materials " with her -- surely an understandable and rational reluctance for as long as I continue to work actively on the material . Ms. Bishop insists that my biography dwells on Allan's life " as filtered through the eyes of various members of the Cherniavsky family . " Yet , as my text and references show , I have consulted , and quoted , at least fifty independent sources , ranging from press notices and interviews from four continents to numerous individuals , many of them eminent in their field , in England , Europe , North America . None of them is related to the Cherniavsky family . For Ms. Bishop to allow her view of The Salome Dancer to be so coloured by personal resentment augurs ili for " a freelance journalist ... currently working on a PhD on Maud Allan . " Before she attempts to evaluate more material outside her narrow academic field , Ms. Bishop would do well to concentrate on her doctoral studies , such as I completed some years ago with a dissertation on Eighteenth Century English Literature the Age of Reason . Felix Cherniavsky PhD Q

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