Talk:Elfrida Vipont

Surname

 * (quote text) "the youngest daughter of Edward Vipont Brown [and Dorothy Brown]"
 * (quote Ext link) "Real Name: Elfrida Vipont Brown Foulds"; "Also wrote as E. V. Foulds, Charles Vipont"
 * WorldCat reports a biography by Susan Vipont Hartshorne, entitled Elfrida: Elfrida Vipont Foulds 1902–1992

Evidently, Foulds was her only husband's surname. Was she born Elfrida Vipont Brown? Was Brown her mother's family name, taken by her father after marriage (as many couples hyphenate today)? Was Brown her father's family name? Or Vipont Brown her father's family name (compare Frank Cottrell Boyce)?

Whatever the facts, should some be covered in the lead sentence? --P64 (talk) 22:30, 16 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I see we have mother's maiden name "Doroth Brown (née Crowley)" --P64 (talk) 03:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Biography of Elizabeth Fry by Vipont(?)
"She also wrote a biography of the famous Victorian Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry." —"About the Author", one section of the retrospective (2007?) citation for Vipont's 1950 Carnegie Medal in Literature.

I find no such book. — google search "Elizabeth Fry Elfrida Vipont" hits that citation, of course, but other top hits seem to be listings of prominent Quakers. — Our biography Elizabeth Fry includes a bibliography of about ten books, none by Fry/Vipont. (but her biographies of authors were written for young adults(?), may not be considered reliable(?))

Perhaps Vipont did "biograph" Fry in an article rather than a book, or in a chapter in one of her books on Quakerism. --P64 (talk) 23:48, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Biography of Vipont by Hartshorne
Quoted in full from the annotated bibliography "Recent Scholarship in Quaker History" (2010) Friends Historical Association


 * Hartshorne, Susan Vipont. Elfrida : Elfrida Vipont Foulds 1902 to 1992. York [England] : Quacks Books, 2010.


 * A biography about Elfrida Vipont Foulds. Elfrida Vipont wrote over 40 books. Some are serious books about Quakerism; some are written for teenagers - adventure stories or biographies of famous authors; and some are suitable for much younger readers. She was awarded a Carnegie Medal for The Lark on the Wing, and her book for reading to the very young, The Elephant and the Bad Baby, has become a classic. However, not many of her readers know that Elfrida trained first as a professional singer and that she spent the war years as headmistress of a school for evacuees. Only after that did she turn to writing as a full time career. Elfrida was also an inspiring lecturer, speaking both about her books and also on Quaker subjects.

--P64 (talk) 23:48, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Ghost stories

 * last of multiple new sections posted during one session

Among other things today I have added all of the 8(?) distinct titles listed by [ref name=FHA]; then all except one of 3(?) distinct titles I located easily at WorldCat. The one is Ghosts' high noon. It's a collection published in the U.S. one year after a listed British title, evidently another collection; thus I suspect they are the same book. Both are in the U.S. national library catalog without enough information to resolve the point: --P64 (talk) 03:02, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * "Terror by night: a book of strange stories" (London: Hamilton, 1966)
 * "Ghosts' high noon" (New York: H.Z. Walck, 1967)

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