regshoe: A woman in a black Victorian-style dress, holding an acoustic guitar and raising one hand to the audience (Frances)
Here we go :D

I've definitely focussed disproportionately on the canon Alan/Davie, but: the material is there in the sources, all used in Wikipedia-approved fashion, and it is that important to me; and if other people want to add other things, they can do so, so there you go.

The article image is the NTS's promotional poster, although I don't really like it much. Both characters, especially Alan, are styled quite differently to how they actually look in the play, and I think they both look much nicer in the play! Also it's a shame not to have Frances or any of the excellent ensemble there. But none of the production shots would have worked very well at that size, and in any case using those kinds of pictures doesn't seem to be the done thing on Wikipedia. So it'll do!

Wikipedia!

Apr. 2nd, 2023 04:15 pm
regshoe: A grey heron in flight over water (Heron)
As promised, here is D. K. Broster's article with an infobox and picture added (I went with photo 2 in the end, which won the poll and was also my favourite).

And here is a brand new shiny article for The Flight of the Heron! I am very pleased with this; writing this article has been an excellent opportunity to do some detailed research about the book and its history, and I hope that having the information nice and accessible on Wikipedia will bring more people's attention to this wonderful book.

I have turned up various interesting and amusing things while doing the research for the FotH article, and I'll probably make another post or two about these soon.

By far the hardest part of the article to write was the 'Themes' section, because of course if you ask me to write about the themes of my favourite book I will naturally try to bring in my own thoughts and judgements about it, but everything on Wikipedia has to be clearly linked to a cited source—'original research' is not allowed. Turns out there has been a decent amount of sensible stuff written about the themes of FotH, but arranging it all was a good challenge.

If there's anything there that's wrong, missing or if you have another fact that simply must be added, please go and edit it in! One important thing I haven't included is a picture; the main picture in a book's article is supposed to be the cover of the most significant edition, usually the first edition, but the first edition of FotH has a plain cloth cover and I'm not sure what else to do (besides just using the title page, which is a bit boring). Does anyone have a significantly early edition with some nice cover art that you'd like to use?

“Mr Rowl” already has an article (although the title is wrong; I mean to fix that at some point), so perhaps I'll do The Wounded Name next. :D
regshoe: Close-up of a grey heron, its beak open as if laughing (Heron 2)
Background: 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.

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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!
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