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\nby Ruth St Clare.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you so much for the web site of E Goudge.\u00a0 I have respected and admired her since childhood.\u00a0 Now I admire her even more.<\/p>\n

I am sure that had computers existed and had I not been a slow learner then ( not now)\u00a0 I would have been one of the\u00a0 people who\u00a0 came \u00a0to look at a person who could so well reflect the spiritual in a world of war and suffering.<\/p>\n

This lady was the key to my visiting Guernsey ( the copy of Green Dolphin Country was damaged so I did not know where the Island was), seeing Mont St. Michele and St Malo.<\/p>\n

I finally worked out that it must be Guernsey.\u00a0 When I left the\u00a0ferry I met an elderly lady and ask\u00a0her if the family even existed and she\u00a0 snarled at me.\u00a0 I knew then I had found the right place …. so instead of\u00a0upsetting anyone else I went off to the cemetery.\u00a0 I smiled and wondered who they were\u00a0and if they had any real relationship to the book.\u00a0 It did not really matter to me… I found the place and names<\/p>\n

The only name I did not find was William Ozanne and then sitting in an open air cafe and musing to myself whether on not\u00a0he existed I looked across the road and saw\u00a0 William Ozanne Hall.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0believe my life was touched for the better because I was privileged to read Elizabeth Goudge’s books.\u00a0\u00a0 Many years ago a\u00a0paper back of\u00a0Green Dolphin\u00a0Country was available and I bought a copy and loaned it to a friend.\u00a0 They never gave it back… forgot they had it…..sigh… not all people with brains\u00a0know how to use them.<\/p>\n

My\u00a0friends\u00a0found the same book in\u00a0New Zealand\u00a0\u00a0in a second hand book shop and they sent\u00a0it to me.\u00a0 How wonderful of them and I have the book today and I\u00a0use it for any of my senior \u00a0English students who show that they are\u00a0 of the thinking nature.<\/p>\n

A fourteen year old French lass is\u00a0reading it now.\u00a0\u00a0I am not sure yet how\u00a0she will cope with it as she is still at an intermediate English\u00a0level.<\/p>\n

Maybe you could condense\u00a0Green Dolphin\u00a0County or Island Magic ( this may not need condensing, I can’t remember!)\u00a0and try to have\u00a0 Miss\u00a0Goudge’s work \u00a0included in school children’s texts for English.\u00a0 They did this with Nicholas Monserrat’s\u00a0\u00a0Cruel Sea.\u00a0 If you could do this I think you would be doing a world service.<\/p>\n

Ruth St. Claire<\/p>\n

Dear Miss St Clare,
\nThank you so much for taking the time to write to me, I’m pleased that you enjoyed the visit to the site.
\nI agree that Elizabeth’s work should be on an English Literature Syllabus but have a horror at condensing any writers work, especially one of my favourite authors. Which bits would you leave out?<\/p>\n

I think that most of her books are compact, with the exception of Green Dolphin Country and Child From The Sea, so probably wouldn’t need much editing. Its the themes of her work which our state run schools might have a problem with.
\nregards Deborah<\/p>\n

Hi Deborah<\/p>\n

Yes I would hate task of trying to edit\u00a0Elisabeth Goudge’s work.\u00a0 It seems a colossal cheek.\u00a0\u00a0On the other had if some one could manage the challenge perhaps young people would be inspired to find and\u00a0read\u00a0 her work (unabridged), as adults.<\/p>\n

I suppose it is just the desire to share with others. Young people would have the chance to see a “master” English writer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I teach English now so I suppose I think about it from the perspective of\u00a0 some of the students here …..\u00a0especially the\u00a0 young\u00a0teenagers… sigh they might\u00a0not be permitted to read Green Dolphin Country unabridged.<\/p>\n

It was literature that educated me until I reached a stage where I could think and retain\u00a0 what I learned and now\u00a0I help others to find joy, delight,\u00a0 and the rewards of reading.<\/p>\n

Best wishes,<\/p>\n

Ruth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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