Talk:Mary Stewart (novelist)

message: I just wanted to let Mrs.Stewart know how much I enjoy her work. I am 70 years old and have read and reread her books. Thank you so much the pleasant hours. Le Anne  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.215.29.237 (talk) 15:21, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: There was a sentence in the article about May Stewart: "She taught the school of John Norquay elementary for 30 to 35 years,but now she retired." I like Mary Stewart's book, so was interested in this statement, but when I investigated, I cannot believe this to be true. This school is in Vancouver, and Mary Stewart lives (and has lived) in Scotland! I looked when the sentence was added. It was Revision as of 02:29, 14 December 2006 and this was all that was added:
"She taught the school of John Norquay elementary for 30 to 35 years,but now she retired. She is now in the BC's Sports Hall Of Fame." The second sentence was later removed as obviously belonging to Mary Stewar the Canadian swimmer. I don't know if the first sentence is also Mary Stewart the swimmer as well (I can't find any proof of this), or some other Mary Stewart - it's a common name! 
I suppose that there may be a school of the same name in Scotland, but I can't find it. What's more, I found this:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ceremonies/congregation/stewart_mary.pdf
the 'celebrate the achievements' of Mary Stewart by Durham University when they gave her an honorary degree. It describes her life, including teaching at school and university before marriage, but mentions no teaching at all after her marriage, although it mentions some of her hobbies. It includes her novels, so obviously we have the right Mary Stewart. I realise that this is negative evidence, but combined with the fact that the original statement was made combined with an incorrect statement, that the school is in the wrong country, and that I can find no evidence AT ALL that she even taught after her marriage, let alone taught at the same Primary School for 30-35 years, while writing a considerable number of books, and travelling widely with her husband (and they moved a couple of times during their married life), I feel that this statement mus be false. 'Clones' of the article, with the false statement, are littering the internet, what's more! So I've removed it. Hope that's OK!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joedkins (talk • contribs) 16:14, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of sentence.  

message: This article says about her books "several of which have been adapted for television and/or film."
To the best of my knowledge, the only adaptations were  the Disney film version of The Moonspinners and the BBC version of The Crystal Cave, both of which were pretty ropey to say the least.  If I was Mary Stewart these adaptations would have made me determined not to sign away the film or tv rights to any of my other works - and maybe she took that position.  It's a real shame because a good tv version of one of the romantic thrillers would be a treat.  Maybe it's best left to our imagination? Ferrymansdaughter (talk) 19:23, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: One definition of the word "several" is "more than one", so to say "several of which have been adapted for television and/or film" when speaking of Mary Stewart's novels is technically correct. 2600:6C5D:5A00:B1D:9558:4229:8BDF:5722 (talk) 10:50, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adaptations 

message: on 10th of may 2014 Mary passed away at home calmly and with family.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.205.100 (talk) 16:13, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Could this notice be a hoax? See http en.mediamass.net/people/mary-stewart/deathhoax.html. Paolo Gibellini (talk)   — Preceding undated comment added 14:17, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

text: Thank you for the clarification. Paolo Gibellini (talk) 08:53, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorry to say