Talk:Taylor Caldwell

Date of Publication

Um, in this article, The Devil's Advocate is first said to be published in 1967 but at the end of the page, in her Bibliography, it says that The Devils Advocate was published in 1952 -- so which date is the right one? -- WikiMember, VenusSatanas —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.188.252.194 (talk) 23:13, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

The Devil's Advocate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Advocate is a page on the film -- The Devil's Advocate needs disambiguation

I have asked permission to use the new biography details that I have contributed, if they tell me I can't then I will remove it. Jaycey

Please don't re-add the copyrighted material until such time as the owner of the information gives you permission to use it. You must ALSO make sure that they are aware that if they give permission, they are releasing the information under the GFDL license, which allows the information to be modified mercilessly, and spread about the Internet and elsewere. RickK 07:36, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

OK, I think what I'll do then is to do a complete rewrite in my own words, using facts from their piece and from other sources I already have, would that be OK? I don't really mind if anyone pinches that, and in any case I can use it to update the Society's pages. In the meantime, I also placed my contribution into a temporary area (as advised) and I now can't find that - can someone help me please? (It's the first time I've ever been on here.) It was a lot of work and I don't want to lose it. Thanks! Jaycey

Writing in your own words is the Wikipedia way. I deleted the temporary page because it was still a copyvio. I can mail it to you, if you want. RickK 19:12, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

I have just received an email from Petri Liukkonen in which they say "Thank you for your interest in my page on Taylor Caldwell. Please, feel free to use it any way you want. It is a honor.", which as you can see gives me permission to use their piece here. However, I have replied to them, drawing their attention to the GFDL, and requesting their final go-ahead after having made themselves aware of this. I hope to hear from them today. If they say 'yes', can I reinstate my original piece (which I have found in the history area) incorporating the latest changes which have been made to it? Jaycey 13/6/05

PLEASE NOTE that I now have full permission to use/reprint/expand upon the Pegasos article in any way I see fit, also Petri Liukkonen has been made aware of the GFDL. (To all those who obviously don't believe me, please feel free to write to him at "petri.liukkonen@kuusankoski.fi"!) I also have some proof that TC wrote "Romance of Atlantis" when she was 12, unfortunately I cannot currently lay my hands on the appropriate book that tells the story - as soon as I have found it, I will state this here. (And a thank-you to Morwen for doing something constructive to my page!) Jaycey I realize this is a five year old post but the information isn't difficult to find (nor was it in 2005)neither is it some big reveal as this information is in the preface of the book itself...

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Jcwinfer now known as Jaycey

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By a far measure Taylor Caldwell's most famous book is indeed The Devil's Advocate, it was required reading in many colleges yet it is not even mentioned in the list "best-known works include" this is a major oversight.

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I also think there should be more discussion of the content of her books. She wrote about a wide variety of subjects; yet some themes are apparent throughout (i.e. a few powerful men controlling the world.)

User malkee — Preceding unsigned comment added by Malkee (talk • contribs) 04:47, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Sources?

To last contributor - please provide firm evidence for your new material and cite your sources otherwise I shall continue to remove it. (I have never heard of any of these allegations and I run the TCAS). Jaycey 3 July 2005 21:26 (UTC)

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Jaycey, my source is Taylor Caldwell's FBI file, specifically section 11. See page 26, an internal FBI memorandum: "Miss CALDWELL has been making her "predictions" for many years and I am not aware of where she gets the inspiration for these predictions. However, she apparently believes herself to be something of a clairvoyant." Pages 28 and 29 of the same section are a set of newspaper clippings from the Buffalo Evening News detailing her predictions for the year 1970. Page 30 is another internal FBI memorandum which includes the text: "Caldwell claims to have clairvoyant powers; on one occasion she advised an FBI Agent after President Kennedy's assassination that she had, prior to Kennedy's death, seen his funeral on a turned-off television set."

I hope this is of help. I'm sorry I didn't specify my source.

SCM—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.99.138.152 (Talk) (undo) (talk) 09:05, 4 July 2005

Hmm fair enough, I do have this link and have examined some of these FBI pages myself - I was sceptical because when TC was having her past-life regression theory with Jess Stearn, even though he found the sessions very successful, she still stated that she found them completely untrustworthy and didn't believe a word of the things she had actually said. She may have 'softened up' a little as she got older, and in fact her last husband seems to have been a very esoteric and rather strange character who would probably have encouraged this sort of thing. I am going to rearrange the main article so I may reinsert your pieces then - I don't like words like 'apparently' and 'claims to have' even from an FBI file - however I will put back anything that seems have to a firm evidential base. Watch this space.... Jaycey 4 July 2005 12:31 (UTC)

Well, an official FBI memo could hardly state as fact that she did have clairvoyant abilities.  :) Agreed, this is something that merits thorough research. My information on her support of the white minority government in Rhodesia was also derived from her FBI file: section 6 includes a flyer promoting an organization calling itself FRI, "Friends of Rhodesian Independence", with Taylor Caldwell listed as president. Glad if this has been of any help at all. SCM—Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.99.138.152 (Talk) (talk) 16:56, 4 July 2005

On Taylor Caldwell as a psychic and references to previous lives

My name is Jeffrey Caldwell Fried. I have the middle name "Caldwell" because I was named after my grandmother, Taylor Caldwell (Janet Combs was her name when she was married to her first husband, my grandfather). In WikiPedia, and a number of other web resources, I have read several references to my grandmother's psychic abilities and her previous lives. In addition i have the "privilege" to have been mentioned, albeit indirectly, in the book by Jess Stearn as someone purporting to have had a previous life. I do not have any recollection of having told any such story, and, i have no recollection of Taylor Caldwell having made reference in my family's presence of any previous life or psychic ability. My grandmother frequently "enhanced" reality with her fantasies.

What i can report is the damage she caused to her own two children and grandchildren. For a woman of letters she was definitely not an interesting conversationalist, instead she was given to tirades about imagined communists and liberals that were ruining her country giving it over to the weak, many of whom put food on her table by purchasing her books. I still remember how over dinner she informed my brother and myself that she had told my mother to have an abortion instead giving birth to us. And my mother still carries the emotional scars of being brought back into their home only to raise her sister by a second marriage because Taylor Caldwell was incapable of caring for anyone but herself.

Why am i writing this? Because after reading a number of websites that refer to her in glowing terms, i think it is time that people recognized that the art of Taylor Caldwell was never the person.

Jcfried (talk) 02:57, 7 April 2008 (UTC) 20:38, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

That is actually quite a fascinating story, Jcfried. Unfortunately, we can't include it because it's not published anywhere. Get a publisher to make it public knowledge, and we'll then be able to consider putting in something along these lines. -- JackofOz (talk) 04:11, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Misleading story of suicide

There seemed to be a misleading info that she committed suicide. Does anyone how and why this circulated? --Jondel 06:26, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Last marriage

There is a rumor in Buffalo that Taylor's children were concerned about her last marriage to the point of considering her a prisoner. Does anyone have any citations that can either confirm or demolish? I'd like to clear the air in the biographical sketch on the article page.

The Child of the Sea?

According to the bibliography, it looks like this was published about a decade after her death. If this is true, perhaps an anecdote about how her work was published posthumously, and why, would be worthy of mention?

I've spent years trying to find out about this book (I think it's The Child From the Sea), my efforts having been hampered by the fact that there is a book of the same name by Elizabeth Goudge (I actually sent for the Caldwell book from an online bookseller, and the Goudge book arrived!). It seems to be listed on various sites but is never in stock and no-one ever seems to be able to tell me anything about it, so any information on it would be gratefully received, as lots of TCASers are interested. Jaycey (Organiser, TCAS) Jaycey 13:05, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Typo in quote?

"indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors" - It seems this should be "impudence" - Can some-one check the original? Kdammers (talk) 05:21, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Childhood

The book cover of Bright Flows the River says, "She began writing novels at nine and by twelve her first novel was submitted to her grandfather, then on the staff of a major Philadelphia publishing house." Kdammers (talk) 05:21, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Anglo

What does Anglo mean in this context? (She was of Scots-Irish ancestry. She was born in Manchester, England. She was six when sher family moved to the U.S.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kdammers (Talk (talk) 05:21, 18 May 2008

Mini series

A section should be added to the article about the TV mini-series "Captains and the Kings" based on the book of the same name. The 9 part series also deserves an article of its own. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.164.208 (talk) 07:39, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

anglo-american

I wonder if this shouldn't be excised. 1) Anglo glosses to England, but TC was Scottish according to the article even though she was born in England. 2) She moved to the U.S. at the age of six or seven. Compare the TC intor paragraph to the one for T.S. Eliot, who was grown when he moved. Kdammers (talk) 09:11, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

father disapproved?

I don't understand the passage that says that she wrote her first novel at the age of eight, but her father disapproved and sent her to work in a bindery. If the father died 'shortly after they moved to the US, when taylor was 7, how can this be possible? Was it her grandfather who disapproved? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.169.36.35 (talk) 16:39, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, i came here to make the same point, ask the same question; i'm a bit disturbed to see this evident nonsense has been here for over a year, at least. I'll remove part of it, therefore, to try to make a bit of sense of what's there. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 05:31, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Dear and Glorious Physician – Publication date

Currently this book is dated to 1959 in the text of the Writings section, but 1958 in the bibliography list.

Online I can find instances of both dates, but what appears to be the first Edition published by Doubleday is dated 1959.

My copy of the Fontana (Collins, UK) paperback states on the verso "First published 1959" and "© Reback & Reback 1959" (Reback being the surname of the author's second husband).

All this points to 1959 being the correct date, so unless anyone comes up with contrary evidence, I will amend the Bibliography date to 1959. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.125.73.196 (talk) 09:18, 15 May 2021 (UTC)