Talk:Elizabeth Goudge

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City of Bells, Henrietta's House, and Sister of the Angels (A Christmas Story) are a trilogy written about Torminster - based on Wells Cathedral city near Bath - all involving the heroine Henrietta. Shouldn't these three books be listed together? The other cathedral cities books have appeared in an anthology together with City of Bells, but usually they are presented seperately AFAIK.

Also a question to anyone who might know, I read a book by Elizabeth Goudge that I found at the library. I would very much like to read it again, but I haven't been able to remember it's title, and I've scanned through bibliography lists and not recognised it. Can anyone tell me what it is called? The story started on a British Naval ship with a Midshipman who was being spreadeagled for a crime - I seem to remember that he didn't believe the punishment was just - so he runs away the next time the ship is in port, and hides out at a farm with a little girl who lives with I think her grandparents. There is an elderly parson involved which is a common motif in her books, and an incident with a mandrake root that the girl was afraid of. That's all I can remember. If anyone can remember, please contact me on my Talk page. Thanks Ammi 15:37, 14 March 2006 (UTC)-

-Hello Ammi: The book your looking for is Gentian Hill. Rita

Contradictory?
This article states that The Little White Horse was Goudge's favourite, but then goes on to say there were only three of her books that she loved: The Valley of Song, The Dean's Watch and The Child from the Sea, her final novel. -- this all seems somewhat contradictory? --BenedictPoole (talk) 10:00, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

Children's books
I have introduced a division for children's books - my source is the Elizabeth Goudge Society website. Some of these books are sometimes classed as adult fiction by libraries. I've moved Sister of the Angels here - I think the children's book aspect is more important than the Torminster one. Robina Fox 11:23, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

A Curious Case of Plagiarism
Several years after Elizabeth Goudge died, her name was in the news again. The reason was an especially bold act of plagiarism on the part of an Indian writer, Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen. Evidently, Gyaltsen made the mistake of supposing that Goudge was such an obscure, long-forgotten writer that no one would notice if one of her books was plagiarized. Gyaltsen basically stole almost the entire text of Goudge's novel The Rosemary Tree, incorporating it into a novel which she called Crane's Morning. The novel was published in 1994 and received some good reviews--including, incredibly enough, one in The New York Times. But sections of the "new" novel had been included in the book review, and many readers (including me) recognized them as belonging to The Rosemary Tree. What Indrath=Gyaltsen had not counted on was the fact that Goudge was a much-beloved writer with a very staunch fan base. Many readers in different parts of the country noticed the plagiarism and contacted the publishers and reviewers.

By the way, I wrote a letter to the Times immediately after reading the review for the bogus Crane's Morning novel. They didn't print it and didn't respond. It was a few months later that enough people were raising a hue and cry so that it could no longer be ignored. Younggoldchip (talk) 17:58, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


 * The section Elizabeth Goudge was added one year ago and promptly tagged original research.


 * Finding that it actually comprises extensive quotation and paraphrase of one barely-acknowledged source I have rewritten it to make that complete dependence clear. --and removed the tag.
 * This needs another source, preferably a later one that provides a settled interpretation of the case. --P64 (talk) 02:59, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

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