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Jac’s sisters believe that Jim Perrin also uses the alias ‘Llywarch’

The Guardian, for whom Jim Perrin regularly writes (with, it could be said, his sinecure the ‘Country Diary’), has been accepting the dubious postings of ‘Melangell’ (JP?) for two years since the exchange between jacssisters and Jim Perrin referred to in earlier posts; and although we have contacted several within that organization to record our belief that he is deceiving them, ref. our post ‘Is Jim Perrin ‘Melangell?’, still they seem unaware.

Most recently our suspicions have fallen upon Arthur Dooley, ‘John, N.Wales’, who reviewed The Old Ways on Amazon, 13/06/2012. To suggest that he is Jim Perrin would, we realize, be ‘Perrinoia’ but we do think that his name might have been ‘borrowed’ — a stratagem we believe Jim Perrin has used before.

One has only to read this particular Dooley review, and his comments (one of which follows a review by ‘Sentinal’, 28/04/2012,) to notice the similarities between ‘his’ style — although not in all the previous reviews — and those of ‘Llywarch’ and ‘Mark’; and the comment which followed the posting by Caroline Hardaker (one of Jac’s sisters) of 16/07/2012, was edited five times — we have kept print-outs… Continue reading →

Jac’s sisters write in response to the recent R J Ellory scandal with particular reference to Jim Perrin

The recent furore concerning abuse of the internet by ill-intentioned, deceitful and dishonest authors is daily growing in momentum.

Jeremy Duns’ research by which he uncovered the scandal of the behaviour of crime-writer, R J Ellory, and which he has now made public, clearly resonates with many other authors and readers, including ourselves, as is shown by the number of articles (and following comments) on the subject.

In the course of our posts on ‘jacssisters’, we have given our own opinion that one of The Guardian country diarists, Jim Perrin, is someone who practises these deceits; and we have noted several names we believe he has used as aliases — possibly ‘hi-jacked’ — or even  perhaps ‘borrowed’ from friends or acquiescent acquaintances.

From July 2010 we were attacked by what, we have no doubt, were the pseudonymous postings of ‘Melangell’ (JP?)* on The Guardian thread which followed the review by Sir Andrew Motion of a questionable book by Jim Perrin; a book which contained many wicked lies about our sister Jac, (Jacquetta) — some of which were exceptionally distasteful. This was one of the reasons that we set up this site. Continue reading →

Is Jim Perrin ‘Melangell’?

We wonder if we are the only ones who suspect Jim Perrin to be using aliases, (ref. our previous posts), and of planting spurious comments on the internet under the security-blanket of anonymity: and, of course, we do have proof that he wrote a wicked ‘anonymous’ letter back in 2005 (ref. our post Jim Perrin Writes an Anonymous Letter). As he was so dishonest in writing that letter we feel there is the strongest possibility that he might have written others.

One of our many contacts has just informed us that there is a long thread on The Guardian. The ‘Melangell’ entries show many of the usual ‘trade-marks’ of the author, Jim Perrin and it is our view that he is posing as a woman — ‘Melangell’ — with an opinion on everything and a comment on everybody and, unless fulsomely praising those whom he wishes — by flattery — to hold close to him and others whom he hopes to impress, writes in a style which is markedly egotistical, ‘know it all’, and frequently downright unpleasant. At least two of these comments were deleted by the moderator. Continue reading →