Template:Did you know nominations/Joan Leche

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 09:15, 28 April 2013 (UTC).

Joan Leche[edit]

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... that Joan Leche founded a school in Saffron Walden which Gabriel Harvey attended in the early 1560s, where according to Thomas Nashe he was a "desperate stabber with pen-knives"?

Reviewed: Daniel Baron

Created by NinaGreen (talk). Self nominated at 20:50, 8 April 2013 (UTC).

Date, length, hook all OK. Article well cited. Hook confirmed by online source. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 15:44, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

- Could there maybe be an ALT? This is clunky and a tad obtuse. Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 22:05, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

ALT1:... that a school founded by Joan Leche in Saffron Walden in the 1520s still flourishes today as Dame Bradbury's School?
ALT2:... that Joan Leche founded a school in Saffron Walden later attended by the writer Gabriel Harvey, whose student days there were satirized by Thomas Nashe?

Comments

ALT1 The text of the article does not say it is now called "Dame Bradbury's School".

ALT2 Dull compared with the original hook in which the quote is the interesting bit. And, if it's an English institution, should it not be "satirised"? --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 16:58, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

- I've added a link to the history page of the current Dame Bradbury's School which speaks to the continuity of the institution. I'm personally quite fond of the original hook, though; Nashe's satire of Harvey is very amusing, including his claim about Harvey's use of the knife he had for sharpening his quill pen. I'm OK with changing the spelling to 'satirised', although I see the online OED has the entry under 'satirized'; but either spelling is fine with me.NinaGreen (talk) 17:17, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

I agree with the nominator that the original hook remains the best. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 17:24, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

No reason to let this linger any longer: the original hook is still good enough! —♦♦ AMBER^(ЯʘCK) 16:13, 27 April 2013 (UTC)