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FROM: [removed]@earthlink.net
REC'D: 5/9/02, 7:03 AM

I have just discovered Elizabeth Cadell, and am trying to learn more
about her. Where does a non-librarian go on the internet to get
information on older writers. I searched Google, and Sherlock, but have
mostly come up with "gentle reads" lists from libraries. I did find her
dates; 1903-1989.

I found the same situation with the author of the Provincial Lady books,
E. M. Delafield. Even Miss Read doesn't have a big presence online.

Thanks so much for any information.
Nancy

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 5/9/02, 7:24 AM

>From: [removed]@earthlink.net
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>Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 07:54:26 -0400
>
>I have just discovered Elizabeth Cadell, and am trying to learn more
>about her. Where does a non-librarian go on the internet to get
>information on older writers. I searched Google, and Sherlock, but have
>mostly come up with "gentle reads" lists from libraries. I did find her
>dates; 1903-1989.
>
>I found the same situation with the author of the Provincial Lady books,
>E. M. Delafield. Even Miss Read doesn't have a big presence online.
>
>Thanks so much for any information.
>Nancy
>

My suggestion would be that you forget the online part and check out
reference books like "American Authors" and "Who Was Who" under the names
you find listed on those "Gentle Reads" pages.

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FROM: "M. Wms." <[removed]@adelphia.net>
REC'D: 5/9/02, 10:56 AM

There's a decent EM Delafield page here:
http://www.starcourse.org/emd/
The Who's Who links from the home page are incorrect; they're at
http://www.starcourse.org/emd/emdwho.htm

~ Molly Wms.
--
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library (Maine)
daily library weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm

[removed]@earthlink.net wrote:

> I have just discovered Elizabeth Cadell, and am trying to learn more
> about her. Where does a non-librarian go on the internet to get
> information on older writers. I searched Google, and Sherlock, but have
> mostly come up with "gentle reads" lists from libraries. I did find her
> dates; 1903-1989.
>
> I found the same situation with the author of the Provincial Lady books,
> E. M. Delafield. Even Miss Read doesn't have a big presence online.
>
> Thanks so much for any information.
> Nancy
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
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FROM: Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 5/9/02, 11:07 AM

If your library has some online databases like "Literature Resource Center"
or "Biography Resource Center" (or similar ones), you would find many of
these authors there. The databases are often available from home by using
your library card number.

Vicki Novak
Adult Services Librarian
[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov

North Central Regional Library
Maricopa County Library District
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032
http://mcld.maricopa.gov

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Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 4:54 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Elizabeth Cadell, and other older authors

I have just discovered Elizabeth Cadell, and am trying to learn more
about her. Where does a non-librarian go on the internet to get
information on older writers. I searched Google, and Sherlock, but have
mostly come up with "gentle reads" lists from libraries. I did find her
dates; 1903-1989.

I found the same situation with the author of the Provincial Lady books,
E. M. Delafield. Even Miss Read doesn't have a big presence online.

Thanks so much for any information.
Nancy

FROM: Sandy Westbrook <[removed]@crlc.org>
REC'D: 5/9/02, 4:04 PM

Hi Nancy,
I second the reply that said to forget the online search and try some
reference sources first. Our library has Contemporary Authors by Gale
Group that has info on all the authors you mentioned. I also found some
info in Wilson's Current Biographies. Why try to find information that
someone has already gathered?

Sandy Westbrook
Adult Services Librarian
South Windsor Public Library
South Windsor, CT 06074
Ph 860-644-1541
Fax 860-644-7645
[removed]@crlc.org

At 07:54 AM 5/9/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I have just discovered Elizabeth Cadell, and am trying to learn more about
>her. Where does a non-librarian go on the internet to get information on
>older writers. I searched Google, and Sherlock, but have mostly come up
>with "gentle reads" lists from libraries. I did find her dates; 1903-1989.
>
>I found the same situation with the author of the Provincial Lady books,
>E. M. Delafield. Even Miss Read doesn't have a big presence online.
>
>Thanks so much for any information.
>Nancy
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 5/9/02, 4:25 PM

At 07:54 AM 5/9/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I have just discovered Elizabeth Cadell, and am trying to learn more
>about her. Where does a non-librarian go on the internet to get
>information on older writers. I searched Google, and Sherlock, but have
>mostly come up with "gentle reads" lists from libraries. I did find her
>dates; 1903-1989.
>
>I found the same situation with the author of the Provincial Lady books,
>E. M. Delafield. Even Miss Read doesn't have a big presence online.
>
>Thanks so much for any information.
>Nancy

The "New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors" is sometimes
useful, at least for dates, pseudonyms, and lists of books, but
not much so in this case:

http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/ngcoba.htm

(Violet) Elizabeth CADELL, nee VANDYKE (F: 1903 Nov 10 - 1989 Oct 9)
(&ps: Harriet AINSWORTH)

Miss, READ (see: Dora SAINT)

Dora SAINT (F: 1913 Apr 17 - living 2000)
(ps: Miss READ)

The World Biographical Index is often useful for older authors, but
again these did not make the cut:

http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/acwww25u/wbi_en/

As someone else (or several someones) have already pointed here, not
everything is on the 'net--and often (usually, I'd say...) the best
things are not, at least not freely available. All three of these
authors have entries in the CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS series, which is
both a large (200-or-so-volume) set of printed books and an
available-by-institutional-subscription-only database, for instance,
and perhaps a library near you has access to this--or at worst could
get copies of the entries from the print version for you via
Interlibrary Loan. Again, Cadell at least is in TWENTIETH CENTURY
ROMANCE AND HISTORICAL WRITERS (a 1990 reference book from St. James
Press), and almost certainly entries and articles on all three could
be found in such sources as BIOGRAPHY AND GENEALOGY MASTER INDEX
(again, available both as a series of books or as a subscription
database) and various general periodical and newspaper indexes.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 5/9/02, 9:01 PM

You can find a list of Elizabeth Cadell's books at:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Elizabeth-Cadell.html

and a listing of "Light Romance Authors" at:

http://library.ipswich.qld.gov.au/ref/romance.htm

Joyce M. Simowski
Canton Public Library
Canton, MI 48188

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