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regshoeBackground: I have recently started editing Wikipedia, and I'm really enjoying this new-found power. I can add a link to the new gay musical Kidnapped adaptation to the book's article! I can make sure everyone reading about Archibald Cameron knows he appears in Flight of the Heron! And one of the things I'd like to do is to add some more stuff and a photograph to D. K. Broster's article, which is nice and informative but which looks a bit bare at the moment.
I've come across several pictures of her in the various research I've been doing, and I thought it'd be nice to share them with all of you; and it could serve the additional purpose of helping me choose which one to use for the Wikipedia page. So here goes:
Photo 1. was printed in The Bookman vol. 66 issue 395, August 1924, although the photograph itself must be quite a bit earlier based on how young she looks—given the academic dress, perhaps her student days in the late 1890s?
Photo 2. was printed in The Illustrated London News vol. 165 issue 4,467, December 1924.
Photo 3. was printed in The Junior Book of Authors, 1934.
Photo 4. (top middle picture) was printed in The Home: An Australian Quarterly vol. 18 no. 2, February 1937. It shows Broster at a literary party given by Heinemann, her publishers.
Photo 5. was printed in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, British Children’s Writers 1914-1960, 1996 (more access-restricted than the older sources; you may need to use the Log In And Borrow button to view the picture, although I hope not). Obviously that publication is long afterwards, but I think it's probably the latest of these photos.
I've come across several pictures of her in the various research I've been doing, and I thought it'd be nice to share them with all of you; and it could serve the additional purpose of helping me choose which one to use for the Wikipedia page. So here goes:
Photo 1. was printed in The Bookman vol. 66 issue 395, August 1924, although the photograph itself must be quite a bit earlier based on how young she looks—given the academic dress, perhaps her student days in the late 1890s?
Photo 2. was printed in The Illustrated London News vol. 165 issue 4,467, December 1924.
Photo 3. was printed in The Junior Book of Authors, 1934.
Photo 4. (top middle picture) was printed in The Home: An Australian Quarterly vol. 18 no. 2, February 1937. It shows Broster at a literary party given by Heinemann, her publishers.
Photo 5. was printed in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, British Children’s Writers 1914-1960, 1996 (more access-restricted than the older sources; you may need to use the Log In And Borrow button to view the picture, although I hope not). Obviously that publication is long afterwards, but I think it's probably the latest of these photos.
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Which is your favourite photo of D. K. Broster?
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1. The Bookman, 1924
5 (22.7%)
2. The Illustrated London News, 1924
11 (50.0%)
3. The Junior Book of Authors, 1934
10 (45.5%)
4. The Home, 1937
4 (18.2%)
5. The Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1996
3 (13.6%)
Another photo of which I was unaware; tell me about it in a comment!
0 (0.0%)
