Talk:G. A. Henty

message: I have found "The Boys Guide to the Historical Adventures of G.A. Henty" by William Potter, ISBN: 1-929241-15-1, to be very helpful. --Wulf 18:11, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
The author and his publisher made a rather obvious error of judgement with the colourful book covers ! All the charging horsemen are holding swords in their left hands. This isn't becaise they are all left handed, it is because the wonderful painting has been printed in reverse ! The book was not well researched.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.152.99 (talk) 22:50, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just because they reversed the painting does not mean that the book is not useful. I think it is helpful Jehorn (talk) 23:16, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

text: All I am saying is don't judge a book by its cover. Anyway I don't think it is intended to be a reference book, it just gives a one page summary of each book. Jehorn (talk) 23:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference book 

message: The following quote is an exerpt from the article: "Shortly before resigning from the army as a captain in 1859 he married Elizabeth Finucane. The couple had four children. Elizabeth died in 1865 after a long illness."  
Does this article mean to say that the duration of the marriage was 6 years and during this six-year period Elizabeth Henty gave birth to four children and suffered from a lengthy and terminal illness? Bigturtle 04:20, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's certainly what it looks like. DebateKid 16:29, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates and children

message: Several of the wars named in this article have antiquated titles; hence, their official modern titles should be substituted at a later date. For example, the Austro-Italian War is commonly termed the Austro-Prussian War. The Carlist Rebellion is more widely known as the Glorious Revolution of Spain. The Ashanti Wars is possibly a eurocentric title, and the Turco-Siberian War needs a stub. -- Flask 10:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The victors? ;) In retrospect, I should have used the word "modern" or "contemporary" instead of "official." -- Flask (talk) 21:02, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military Campaigns - Clarification 

message: Please avoid add the :Category:ISBN needed category to this article. ISBN was invented in 1966. Any works printed, and are original, before this date will not have an ISBN number. G. A. Henty certainly won't have an ISBN number! Kilo-Lima|(talk) 13:02, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ISBN

message: For example, one of his books expresses the view that "the intelligence of an average negro is about equal to that of a European child of ten years old." 75.76.213.106 (talk) 01:20, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a Controversial Views section, quoting the text you referenced, along with a reference-link to the actual book, the full text of which is available on archive.org. Please help fill this in -- I'm sure we're not the only two people wondering why the only reason we'd heard of the guy wasn't even mentioned on his page... 72.86.124.192 (talk) 00:02, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Henty and his works have become a pawn in political disputes between Robinson and his critics on the left. Its unfortunate, but its how Wikipedia works. Historical articles always get poisoned by contemporary political disputes and typically by people ignorant of the subject material. There is a tendency to attack Henty based on the very worst of his books, but a failure to recognize just how many books he wrote and how different one book can be from the next. Some of the attacks on him in the article make no sense. For example, there is nothing wrote with having written a book from the perspective of a "loyalist" during the American Revolution. Do we have to in 2015 still have to pretend that the loyalists didn't exist during the revolution? Do have to pretend that the only acceptable view on the French Revolution is a positive one?  The article is indeed written in a way that stereotypes and attacks those who are homeschooled as racists. But thats what we get when Wikipedia as a whole decides that people like Rush Limbaugh and Rachael Maddow are acceptable sources. This is yet another article which shows very clearly many of the things that are wrong with Wikipedia.12.12.144.130 (talk) 18:20, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no mention of Henty's racism? 

message: Henty was a prolific writer in his time, but has now become rather obscure, so I suggest that we can hardly treat everything he wrote as inherently notable.  Is there any of his novels which has a greater claim to notability than most, or should they all be reduced to redirect? PatGallacher (talk) 07:58, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability issues 

message: Having just created a stub for playwright and Henty collector John Cargill Thompson I was surprised to find no mention here, to link, of his The boys' Dumas, G. A. Henty: aspects of Victorian publishing (Carcanet, 1975, ). I couldn't see quite where to shoehorn it into the article, so will just leave this note here. I see it gets a mention on the Henty Soc webpage. PamD 18:23, 20 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Cargill Thompson book 

message: The section on "Controversial views" should simply state what those controversial views are. There are too many references to home schooling and Robinson throughout the article. This is not an article about those subjects. They can be mentioned. But they should not (as seems to be the current case) take over the article. 12.12.144.130 (talk) 17:45, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  problematical sections in the article 

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