Talk:Abbey Series

Someone selling content from here that should be free
I have recently discovered that a Print On Demand (POD) ‘publisher’ in the US is offering a 26-page ‘book’ called Novels by Elsie J. Oxenham: Abbey Connectors, Abbey Series, Oxenham Non-Connectors (Study Guide) (ISBN: 1156856264) for about $15.00 or the local currency equivalent. This appears to be directly copied from four articles on Wikipedia that are largely my work, and that I put on there for free internet use. When I ‘signed up’ to the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), that Wikipedia writers agree to abide by, I did not envisage my altruism stretching so far as other people making a profit from it. It seems that this firm, Books LLC, offer other POD ‘Study Guides’ – which one is forced to conclude may themselves be ‘lifted’ from Wikipedia or other free sources. So along with all the other reasons to be wary of POD titles, comes the fact that people may be being inveigled into parting with their cash for something that is freely available on line Abbeybufo  ( talk  •  contribs ) 10:48, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Archive
I have moved to Archive page 1 the discussion on the potential deletion of this page which is now superseded as it related to the state of article when still stub - or worse --Abbeybufo 19:50, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

The Girls of Squirrel House aka The Abbey Girls on Trial.
I have just picked up a copy entitled "The Girls of Squirrel House" inside it is labeled on the left hand pages as being "The Abbey Girls on Trial" and is page-for-page identical to start with (after the first few pages) ie pages 14 & 15 are identical between each book. Having said that, Squirrel House runs to XII chapters (128 pages) while On Trial contains XXVI chapters and runs to 288 pages.

The book has a dust jacket and is a darker yellow colour with the title "The Girls of Squirrel House Elsie J. Oxenham" with a three masted sailing ship embossed on the cover. Inside is a colour print of Audrey and Elspeth while the Author is listed as being the Author of 'The Abbey School' etc

There is no "printed" date inside, however there is a "Presented to ..." dated December 12th 1937. My The Abbey Girls on Trial is a first printed in this edition 1949

Have other books been re-released with other titles? Does this warrant a new section, or is this a one off occurrence? (and yes, XII is 12 and XXVI is 26)

Thanks for reading, Timelord2067 (talk) 13:03, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

OK, now I'm confused - there's more Abbey Girls books list here http://home.pacific.net.au/~bcooper/popular.htm and here http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/popular.html Timelord2067 (talk) 13:19, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Two Short stories: Mistakes at The Abbey (Drawings by Frank Varty) & Dickies Way (uncredited drawings)
I went to the recent Lifeline Book Fair in Brisbane and came across two oversize books that contain short stories attributed to Elsie J. Oxenham.

The first, "Mistakes at The Abbey" (Drawings by Frank Varty) is contained in a "Girls' Story Omnibus" on pages 97 to 107 (WM Collins Son and Co. LTD - undated but thought to be 1st of January 1959. A hard cover book with a colour drawing of a woman wearing a red jacket while skiing is on the cover). The story mentions Jen in the first sentence followed by Joan, Jan, Joy, a boy named Mickey, Jacky-bay & Della (who are asleep), Rosie, Timmy, the "Australian Girl" and Jandy Mac from what I could tell skim reading it just now.

The Second, "Dickies Way" (contains two uncredited drawings on pages 38 and 43) is contained in "The Australian Girl's Annual" (The Amalgamated Press Limited - possibly 1927) is "A Splendid Talk Telling of a Prefect's Perplexing Dilemma" mentions a variety of characters - Dorothy (Dorry), Merle, Dicky, Vi, Miss Wilcox, Miss Dickinson, Enid, Mary and Portia. There is also an "Editor's Chat" which at first appears to be from EJO, however, you have to turn to page 81 for the second part of the chat and find it is an advertisement for a competition to win One Guinea for marking on a post card which stories you liked in which order.

Undoubtedly the first story Mistakes at the Abbey is an Abbey short story. Timelord2067 (talk) 01:52, 22 June 2019 (UTC)