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March 2011 Book of the Month: The Raven's Bride by Lenore Hart

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Post by boswellbaxter » Thu December 15th, 2011, 6:52 pm

Here's a round-up by Undine of recent posts on the plagiarism issue:

http://worldofpoe.blogspot.com/2011/12/ ... val-1.html

It seems that not only did Hart copy passages from The Very Young Mrs. Poe, she also relied on it heavily for her research, making some of the same errors of fact (such as a railroad trip on a line that didn't exist at the time) that were made in the earlier novel.
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