Talk:Amelia Opie

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"The biography based on Brightwell is not only dated but also carefully presented to play down Amelia Opie's radicalism during the years surrounding the French Revolution. She was indeed part of a coterie with William Godwin, Elizabeth Inchbald and Thomas Holcroft, and was present at the Treason Trials of 1794. Her novel Adeline Mowbray (1805) explores the pleasures of an unmarried partnership and contrasts them with the tyranny of marriage. She also assisted Elizabeth Fry (nee Gurney) in her prison visiting, although both of them felt they were achieving very little (MacGregor, Margaret Eliot, "Amelia Alderson Opie, Worldling and Friend", Smith College Studies in Modern Languages, 14 (1933), 3-127, p. 92). A letter of 13 Jan 1830 to Robert Southey attempts to interest him in the issue of hospital reform, although his response was lukewarm as one might expect (Wordsworth Collection, Grasmere). In later life, as a Quaker, she was active in the Anti-Slavery Movement and can be seen in Haydon's group portrait of the 1840 convention in a prodigous poke bonnet. The picture is currently hanging at the National Portrait Gallery. She conducted a vigorous correspondence all her life with various political and intellectual figures including Whewell, Cuvier, Lafayette, Brougham, Hayley, Gurney and others, as well as family. These letters are extant in over forty archival locations but have been collected into an annotated index forming part of my thesis (C. Jones, "The Life and Prose Works of Amelia Opie, 1769-1853", Open University, 2001). Clive Jones"

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I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Amelia Opie's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

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From John Opie: "Opie, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. pp. 230–233.
From John Bowring: Stone, Gerald (2009) [2004]. "Bowring, Sir John (1792–1872)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3087. (subscription required)
From Sarah Siddons: Knight, John Joseph (1885–1900). "Siddons, Sarah" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
From Fowell Buxton: "Buxton, Thomas Fowell (1786–1845)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
From History of slavery: Hall, Catherine (2008). "Anti-Slavery Society". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/96359. Retrieved 20 December 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
From Samuel Lucas: Lucas, Samuel (1893). "Lucas, Samuel (1811-1865)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 34. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
From James Carlile: Blaikie, William Garden (1887). "Carlile, James (1784-1854)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
From John Jeremie: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jeremie, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
From Anna Gurney: "Gurney, Anna" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
From Constantine Moorsom: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Moorsom, Constantine Richard" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 18:46, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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The references are not consistently formatted at present, and I want to use the Harvard system when working on the article, which I intend to raise to GA level. Please comment if you have any objection. Amitchell125 (talk) 06:06, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Paragraph: "Early life and influences"[edit]

What does this number in brackets correspond to? According to her biographer, Opie "was vivacious, attractive, interested in fine clothes, educated in genteel accomplishments, and had several admirers."(3). JackkBrown (talk) 22:58, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]