Green Dolphin Street is a novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by Hodder & Stoughton under the title Green Dolphin Country in 1944. The novel was adapted to a 1947 film.^[1] The novel won a $125,000 prize offered by Louis B. Mayer for a novel suitable for filming.^[2]

In the 19th century in the Channel Islands, the sisters Marianne and Marguerite fall in love with the same man, William Ozanne.^[3] He emigrates to New Zealand, and writes home asking the one he loves to join him and become his wife, but by a slip of the pen he names the wrong sister. When Marianne arrives instead of his beloved Marguerite, he accepts the inevitable and strives to make their marriage a success.^[4] After many years, William and Marianne return to the Channel Islands with their daughter.^[5]