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User:Olivaw-Daneel sorry for the shortcut, in a hurry, I have highlighted here WP (writing process) for things discussing *how" she writes ... there is much more in Smith and other places about how crazy organized she is, and how she has the whole thing planned out before writing
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=== Chapter 8: A Little Bit of Help ===
=== Chapter 8: A Little Bit of Help ===
* interesting backstory on how Christopher Little came to accept the book when they did not do Children’s books{{sfn|Smith|2002|pp=151–56}} … ask AP if she wants to work in some of this, or too much already. Book was initially throw out, then Evens glanced at it and read first chapter because she liked the folder it was in, and then Little read it overnight.
* interesting backstory on how Christopher Little came to accept the book when they did not do Children’s books{{sfn|Smith|2002|pp=151–56}} … ask AP if she wants to work in some of this, or too much already. Book was initially throw out, then Evens glanced at it and read first chapter because she liked the folder it was in, and then Little read it overnight.
* “she would retype whole pages rather than indulge in the expense of photocopying”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=158}}
* '''WP''' “she would retype whole pages rather than indulge in the expense of photocopying”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=158}}
* verifies 12 publishers turned it down{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=159}}
* verifies 12 publishers turned it down{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=159}}
* “came with a fully imagined world”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=160}}
* '''WP''' “came with a fully imagined world”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=160}}
* attached a tube of Smarties{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=160}}
* attached a tube of Smarties{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=160}}
* of the 1,500, Joanne received 1,275 after commission to agent, so “Bloomsbury secured the biggest phenomenon in modern literature”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=161}}
* of the 1,500, Joanne received 1,275 after commission to agent, so “Bloomsbury secured the biggest phenomenon in modern literature”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=161}}
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=== Chapter 9: The Prime of Miss Joanne Rowling ===
=== Chapter 9: The Prime of Miss Joanne Rowling ===
*teacher training, “sympathetic understanding of the needs of pupils”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=168}}
*teacher training, “sympathetic understanding of the needs of pupils”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=168}}
* “the strengths Joanne brought to teaching were evidently the same ones she brought to writing: careful planning, an understanding of children and what they like, and sackloads of imagination” … placed at Leith Academy, less than 600 yards from her home{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=168}}
* '''WP''' “the strengths Joanne brought to teaching were evidently the same ones she brought to writing: careful planning, an understanding of children and what they like, and sackloads of imagination” … placed at Leith Academy, less than 600 yards from her home{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=168}}
* within five months progressed to A-grade student with glowing reviews, received teaching certificate in July 1996{{sfn|Smith|2002|pp=168–72}}
* within five months progressed to A-grade student with glowing reviews, received teaching certificate in July 1996{{sfn|Smith|2002|pp=168–72}}
* “expecting to earn her living as a teacher” … still “needed money to feed and clothe Jessica”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=173}}
* “expecting to earn her living as a teacher” … still “needed money to feed and clothe Jessica”{{sfn|Smith|2002|p=173}}
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== NYT ==
== NYT ==
{{cite news |last=Jordan |first=Tina |title= J.K. Rowling’s Friend Robert Galbraith Has Something to Say |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/books/robert-galbraith-jk-rowling.html |work=The New York Times |date= 16 September 2018 |access-date=14 January 2022}}
{{cite news |last=Jordan |first=Tina |title= J.K. Rowling’s Friend Robert Galbraith Has Something to Say |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/books/robert-galbraith-jk-rowling.html |work=The New York Times |date= 16 September 2018 |access-date=14 January 2022}}
* before launch of ''Lethal White'' … describes her writing process
* '''WP''' before launch of ''Lethal White'' … describes her writing process
* “always wanted to write classic whodunits in a contemporary setting”
* '''WP''' “always wanted to write classic whodunits in a contemporary setting”
* “central puzzle can be clothed a million different ways. There’s also something mythic about a lone detective or a duo, righters of wrongs, imposers of order on chaos”
* '''WP''' “central puzzle can be clothed a million different ways. There’s also something mythic about a lone detective or a duo, righters of wrongs, imposers of order on chaos”
* “I’m very interested in the power of names and naming and I can’t really get to grips with characters until I’ve settled on their name.”
* '''WP''' “I’m very interested in the power of names and naming and I can’t really get to grips with characters until I’ve settled on their name.”
* “… I think you’re shaped by literally everything you read when you’re young, and as my mother filled the house with books, … “
* “… I think you’re shaped by literally everything you read when you’re young, and as my mother filled the house with books, … “
* “I’m definitely a planner.” Started Lethal White with nine-column spreadsheet … her “initial inspiration may be one simple idea with no start or finish, but I never start writing a book unless I know exactly where I’m heading.”
* '''WP''' “I’m definitely a planner.” Started Lethal White with nine-column spreadsheet … her “initial inspiration may be one simple idea with no start or finish, but I never start writing a book unless I know exactly where I’m heading.”


==The Scotsman==
==The Scotsman==
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* ''directly'' states “evident parallelism” between Harry confronting his own mortality and her experience with her mother’s death<ref name=SerInvisible/>
* ''directly'' states “evident parallelism” between Harry confronting his own mortality and her experience with her mother’s death<ref name=SerInvisible/>
*: Definitivamente. Y me resulta extraordinario que a pesar de que todos sabemos que vamos a morir, la muerte sigue siendo un misterio. Pensamos que la muerte es como algo secreto que le ocurre a muy poca gente. Y de pronto alguien cercano se muere y entonces cae la bomba. Harry tiene un entendimiento precoz de la muerte, mucho antes de ese capítulo 34. Y eso tiene un evidente paralelismo con mi vida. Si alguien de tu vida cercana se muere, como se murió mi madre, se vuelve explícito el hecho de que la muerte nos llega a todos. Y es algo con lo que has de vivir siempre.
*: Definitivamente. Y me resulta extraordinario que a pesar de que todos sabemos que vamos a morir, la muerte sigue siendo un misterio. Pensamos que la muerte es como algo secreto que le ocurre a muy poca gente. Y de pronto alguien cercano se muere y entonces cae la bomba. Harry tiene un entendimiento precoz de la muerte, mucho antes de ese capítulo 34. Y eso tiene un evidente paralelismo con mi vida. Si alguien de tu vida cercana se muere, como se murió mi madre, se vuelve explícito el hecho de que la muerte nos llega a todos. Y es algo con lo que has de vivir siempre.
* writing the first book saved her life … evasion … trying to clarify matters that concerned her … like love, loss, separation, death … all reflected in the first book.<ref name=SerInvisible/>
* '''WP''' writing the first book saved her life … evasion … trying to clarify matters that concerned her … like love, loss, separation, death … all reflected in the first book.<ref name=SerInvisible/>
*: Le diré una cosa. A mí me salvó la vida el mero hecho de escribir el primer libro. Siempre me dicen que el mundo que inventé es irreal; fue eso lo que me sirvió para evadirme. Sí, es cierto, es irreal hasta un punto. Pero no porque mi mundo fuera mágico, sino porque todos los escritores se evaden. Además, yo no lo hacía sólo para evadirme sino porque buscaba aclararme con asuntos que me preocupaban. Asuntos como el amor, la pérdida, la separación, la muerte... Y todo eso queda reflejado en el primer libro.
*: Le diré una cosa. A mí me salvó la vida el mero hecho de escribir el primer libro. Siempre me dicen que el mundo que inventé es irreal; fue eso lo que me sirvió para evadirme. Sí, es cierto, es irreal hasta un punto. Pero no porque mi mundo fuera mágico, sino porque todos los escritores se evaden. Además, yo no lo hacía sólo para evadirme sino porque buscaba aclararme con asuntos que me preocupaban. Asuntos como el amor, la pérdida, la separación, la muerte... Y todo eso queda reflejado en el primer libro.
* She uses significant dates relating to her own life. Uses Harry’s birthday as her own, for example. Numbers and dates that appear in the books relate to her.<ref name=SerInvisible/>
* '''WP''' She uses significant dates relating to her own life. Uses Harry’s birthday as her own, for example. Numbers and dates that appear in the books relate to her.<ref name=SerInvisible/>
*: P. Sus libros parece que están llenos de claves personales.
*: P. Sus libros parece que están llenos de claves personales.
*: R. Tiendo a usar fechas significativas. Cuando necesito una fecha o un número, uso algo que está relacionado con mi vida personal. No sé por qué hago eso, es un tic. El cumpleaños de Harry es el mío, por ejemplo. Los números que aparecen o las fechas que vienen en los libros tienen relación conmigo.
*: R. Tiendo a usar fechas significativas. Cuando necesito una fecha o un número, uso algo que está relacionado con mi vida personal. No sé por qué hago eso, es un tic. El cumpleaños de Harry es el mío, por ejemplo. Los números que aparecen o las fechas que vienen en los libros tienen relación conmigo.
* burned out before fourth book, thought she could not write anymore, then met Neil Murray:<ref name=SerInvisible/>
* burned out before fourth book, thought she could not write anymore, then met Neil Murray:<ref name=SerInvisible/>
*: R. Cuando llegué al cuarto libro estaba muy quemada. Había producido un libro por año durante cuatro años, mientras criaba a mi hija sola, sin niñera ni ayuda de ningún tipo. Me sentía exhausta. Y realmente pensé: "Ya no puedo más, tengo que parar". Y se lo dije a mi editor, que si seguía así no iba a poder seguir escribiendo. Y entonces conocí al que es ahora mi segundo marido.
*: R. Cuando llegué al cuarto libro estaba muy quemada. Había producido un libro por año durante cuatro años, mientras criaba a mi hija sola, sin niñera ni ayuda de ningún tipo. Me sentía exhausta. Y realmente pensé: "Ya no puedo más, tengo que parar". Y se lo dije a mi editor, que si seguía así no iba a poder seguir escribiendo. Y entonces conocí al que es ahora mi segundo marido.
* Again, reinforces that Harry is her, and talks about death of her mother:<ref name=SerInvisible/>
* '''WP''' Again, reinforces that Harry is her, and talks about death of her mother:<ref name=SerInvisible/>
*: P. El final es conmovedor: "La cicatriz [de Harry] seguía allí y después de 19 años ya no duele".
*: P. El final es conmovedor: "La cicatriz [de Harry] seguía allí y después de 19 años ya no duele".
*: R. Es simbólico. Todos repetimos la mentira una y otra vez: que el tiempo lo cura todo. Y no es verdad. Hay cosas que no se curan, como cuando alguien a quien quieres muere.
*: R. Es simbólico. Todos repetimos la mentira una y otra vez: que el tiempo lo cura todo. Y no es verdad. Hay cosas que no se curan, como cuando alguien a quien quieres muere.

Revision as of 23:03, 15 January 2022

Smith bio

Smith, Sean (2002). J.K. Rowling: A Biography. London: Arrow Books. ISBN 0-09-944542-5. OCLC 51303518.

  • Mozart, Requiem Mass in D Minor favorite listening, p. xiii (should be mentioned as we now focus on rock)[1]
  • Find Sun (Woman Supplement) article, My Life as a Lone Parent, pp. x to xii, seems significant, not now in our Bibliography
    Can't find it. three different titles for Sun article, all lead nowhere.

Chapter 1: Opening the Chamber

  • both parents 18 when met on train, nine-hour train trip headed to naval posting.[2]
  • Ernie, grandfather, grocery shop was later inspiration for J.K. ? Do we have this elswhere, should be mentioned?[3]
  •  Done p. 3 verifies their marriage date, perhaps better source than The Scotsman ? meh, keep The Scotsman as it is archived.
    Married at 19 [4]
    • See Chapter 4.
  • her mother’s love of books, first inspiration[5]
  • again mentions her mother always reading to the girls[6]
  • father reading The Wind in the Willows, inspiration for animal characters mentioned, worth including ?[7]
  • discusses Richard Scarry animal influence and significance of trains in Jo life[6]
  • mention Richard Scarry influence, her first attempt at writing at age 6[8]
  • discusses her sister’s place in Jo’s life, gave her confidence, seems relevant as she later returned from Portugal to her younger sister.[9]
  • mentions Jo’s early imagination as leader of neighborhood childhood play involving wizards[10]
  • influence by hating spiders[11]

Chapter 2: A Bookish Child

  • Smith gives no date of when they moved
  • Influence of food, her mother’s cooking, on Potter books[12]
  •  Done first school at age 5 was named St. Michael’s Church of England School[13]
  •  Done headmaster same initials, but says better model found in her father and later headmaster[14]
  • verifies not Ian Potter, according to Jo[15]
  • again mentions Rolls Royce factory … was father still on production line, unclear? Concerned that our read of him as an “engineer” may be inflated[16]
    • See Chapter 4.
  • refer to Tutshill as “staunchly middle class”. I suggest we might use that as the combination of describing her father as an engineer, and the picture of her childhood home, may be leaving an inaccurate impression of wealth.[17]
    • "handsome Gothic Revival cottage, by a church, in the village of Tutshill"[18]
  • continued her education at Tutshill Church of England School p. 27 she started there in 1974[17]
  • teacher Sylvia Morgan “struck fear into the hearts of the children” “disciplinarian” “trepidation” “children … terrified”[19] … [20] “battleaxe”
  • seated in “dunce’s row”, when moved up, became “clever but unpopular”.[21]
  • discuss Sylvia Morgan’s influence on Potter stories and her husband, John Morgan, deputy headmaster[22]
  • The later part of the chapter suggest magical themes around Jo’s involvement in Brownies
  • Jo wrote a short story[23]
  • influence of Chronicles of Narnia[24]
  • Jo as Hermoine[25]
  • influence of The Little White Horse[26]
  • more on animal influence[27]
  • more on food influence[28]

Chapter 3: A Rebel in Hiding

  •  Done p. 49 preferred to be called Jo
  •  Done p. 51 another headmaster postulate, denied by Jo friend
  •  Done p. 52 again compares headmaster to Jo’s father
  • Anne hired at Wyedean[29]
  • “more like sisters than mother and daughters”, shared stories on walks to and from school [30]
  • Jo “craved to play heavy electric guitar”[30]
  • impressing her teachers with her writing[31]
  • Lucy Shepherd, inspiration, teacher she most trusted[32]
  • “intelligent yet shy”[33] “quiet and shy”[34]
  • heavy makeup phase[34]
  •  Donegreat aunt gives her Mitford, already in[34]
  •  Done quote about why she liked Mitford[35]
  • bullied in school[36]

Chapter 4: Goodbye to the Forest

  • MS diagnosis when Jo was 15, mother 35[37]
  • Jo quote “home was a difficult place to be”[38]
  • Pete moving up the ladder, “chartered engineeer at Rolls Royce”, “moving up” “executive ladder”[38]
  • “virulent strain”[39]
  • had to give up job at Jo and Di’s school[40]
  •  Done family not churchgoers girls “never attended Sunday school or services” at church next door (we are mispresenting)[41]
    •  Done next to her primary school[17]
    •  Done but "unlike other members of her family, Rowling regularly attended services in the church next door"[18]
  • Sean Harris, Ford “escape from a situation that was becoming more and more oppressive for Joanne”[42] (see also ref name="parker2012"/ Mugglemarch)
  • paid tribute to Sean in second Potter book[43]
  •  Done head girl “voted for partly by staff and partly by the pupils”[44]
  • Anne and Pete did not attend university[44]
    • See also "but mother's family was solidly middle class"[18]
  • two A’s and B in A-levels, already in, accessible[45]
  • Oxford rejection, privilege[46]
Note: no sense of unhappy home life in this book. New Yorker, "I wasn't particularly happy" as a teenager. I came from a difficult family. My mother was very ill, and it wasn't the easiest."[18]
Note 2, the Scotsman article is almost a copy of Smith, but portrays happy home life until her mother got sick.

Chapter 5: Natural Woman

  • Discusses transition from “provincial backwater”, lackluster interest in her major, does mention her father now as a chartered engineer.[47]
    • "Paraphrasing Fitzgerald, she said that she reacted to Exeter “not with the rage of the revolutionary but the smoldering hatred of the peasant.”[18]
  • always wanted to be a writer, but stuck studying French and classics for practical reasons[48]
  • at Exeter, Smiths favorite band … but we have that in secondary school ??[49]
  • Tolkien admirer[50]
  • Little White Horse most influenced Potter[51]
  • temp secretary work after university as her mother worsened[52]
  • downplays her time at Amnesty International … we may be overstating the case … had begun writing adult novel while working there, was unhappy with work she was assigned[53]
  • planned move to Manchester with boyfriend, what “she has called a year of misery”[54]
  • train and idea popping in to her head fully formed, may want to quote this.[55]
  • later jotted it all down in small flimsy notebook[56]
  • puts date on this at June 1990[56]
  • moved to Manchester temp secretary with Manchester Chamber of Commerce, but they can find no record, which is typical, yep we are overplaying the Amnesty International thing, and at Manchester University[56]
  • origin of name Harry and Potter[57]
  • Anne died 30 December 1990[57]
    Still looking for book source that her mother never knew of Potter, Telegraph is paywalled and not even visible via ProQuest
  • profound effect and on Potter[58]
  • The Mirror of Erised” about her own mother’s death[59]
    • We need to put dates on the situation with her father, per New Yorker, or try to figure out if they are still estranged. See also Pugh. New Yorker "I did not have an easy relationship with my father ... he attended her wedding in 2001, "but they stopped speaking about two years later". “We’ve not had any communication for about nine years,” Rowling told me. She said that the break had already happened when, in December, 2003, ... auctioned signed books she had given him on Father's Day.[18]

Chapter 6: Love in a Warm Climate

  • New Yorker, Muggle March, describes Porto as "fight or flight" after loss of mother, end of relationship, and "being made redundant from an office job in Manchester". Arantes quote about "slapping her hard".[18]
  • ugh. Long lover’s quarrel, depressing wedding, connection between October 16 in books and her October 16 wedding date so maybe we should include wedding date[60]
  •  Done p. 132, she says daughter named after Jessica Mitford but Jorge says Jezebel from the Bible
  • 17 November 1993 retrieved baby with police after Jorge threw her out on the street[61]
  • went into hiding from Jorge, left Portugal two weeks later[62]

Chapter 7: The Poverty Trap

  • “Jessica kept me going”[63]
  • question of why she went to sister rather than father … father had remarried within two years of mother’s death, secretary eight years his junior[63]
  • first Potter book dedicated to Jessica, Anne and Dianne, no mention of father[64]
  • quote about depressing mouse-ridden flat[65]
  • got $103.50 per week from Social Security[65]
  • borrowed 600 pounds ($900) from Sean, moved to flat in Leith, where they lived for three years, place where she finished Philosopher’s Stone[66]
  • Jorge appears and has “sought consolation in drugs”[67]
  • 15 March 1994 Action of Interdict, wording of action there[68]
  • “deep black hole of despair” depression[68]
  • grubby teddy bear to daughter worst part[69]
  • 10 August 1994 filed for divorce, nine months of therapy, things started to turn around, unclear if therapy was before or after August, around that time[70]
  • brother-in-law Roger Moore had bought in partnership a cafe called Nicolson’s, where Joanne would go to write[71]
  • secretarial work for 15 pounds ($22.50) per week, Catch-22, not allowed to make more than that without losing benefits[72]
  • summer 1995 unnamed friend gave her money to go off benefits and enroll full-time in school[73]
  • divorce final 26 June 1995[74]

Also from New Yorker

  • Old friend Sean Harris lent her the money to move to better flat.
  • Began therapy after move to live with sister. … unclear again, but New Yorker gives impression she began therapy around time she moved to first flat with Harris loaned money[18]
  • CNN places depression and suicidal thoughts in same time frame, no mention of an actual diagnosis anywhere
  • And Toronto Star places depression in same time period, therapy was CBT (curious … original research alert … she later stated she had OCD, for which CBT is used)

Chapter 8: A Little Bit of Help

  • interesting backstory on how Christopher Little came to accept the book when they did not do Children’s books[75] … ask AP if she wants to work in some of this, or too much already. Book was initially throw out, then Evens glanced at it and read first chapter because she liked the folder it was in, and then Little read it overnight.
  • WP “she would retype whole pages rather than indulge in the expense of photocopying”[76]
  • verifies 12 publishers turned it down[77]
  • WP “came with a fully imagined world”[78]
  • attached a tube of Smarties[78]
  • of the 1,500, Joanne received 1,275 after commission to agent, so “Bloomsbury secured the biggest phenomenon in modern literature”[79]
  • Ten-hour trip from Edinburgh in one day to meet publishers etc because of Jessica[79]
  •  Done verifies “never make any money” quote[80]
  • “to Byrony—who really did discover Harry Potter”, signed J. K. Rowling[81]

Chapter 9: The Prime of Miss Joanne Rowling

  • teacher training, “sympathetic understanding of the needs of pupils”[82]
  • WP “the strengths Joanne brought to teaching were evidently the same ones she brought to writing: careful planning, an understanding of children and what they like, and sackloads of imagination” … placed at Leith Academy, less than 600 yards from her home[82]
  • within five months progressed to A-grade student with glowing reviews, received teaching certificate in July 1996[83]
  • “expecting to earn her living as a teacher” … still “needed money to feed and clothe Jessica”[84]
  • given posting at Leith Academy[85]
  • needed money, still writing Chamber of Secrets[86]
  •  Done more detail on choice of J. K. … J. R. Rowling sounded like Dallas, J. R. R. Rowling “verging on” Tolkien, J. K. “Flowed off tongue”, “two consecutive letters of alphabet”, and grandmother’s name.[86]
  • Scottish Arts Council … 8,000 pounds (then $12,000)[87]
  • used grant towards purchase of a word processor[88]
  • verifies first print run of 500[89]
  • no money for marketing fanfare, but encouraging reviews in The Scotsman and Sunday Times[90]
  • three days after publication, auction, Scholastic Levine phone call, bid $100,000 … [91]
  • list of things The Daily Mail got wrong when published the news[92]
  • “never enjoyed being subjected to public scrutiny”[93]
  • “romance of being a penniless divorcee hitting the jackpot” … effective hype that took off in the press[94]

Chapter 10: On the Move

  • by time of publication of second book, Chamber of Secrets, Rowling had seen 2,800 pounds ($4,200) in royalties.[95]
  • after attempted burglary at her flat, moved to be nearer her sister[96]

Note: bought apartment already in here

Chapter 11: Public Property

  •  Done named Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine[97]
  • after several pages of sordid Arantes press issues, “From that moment Joanne has displayed a great mistrust of the press and an even greater desire to guard her privacy.”[98]
  • “unusual in that she is a prime subject or target for both the serious broadsheets and the tabloid press”.[99]
  • denies Skeeter as revenge[100]

Chapter 12: Hollywood

  • re David Heyman, Warner Bros. “She would retain some say in what happened, would have some input into the script and had a veto on certain types of merchandising, particularly in Britain.”[101]

Chapter 13: Honoris Causa

  • millionaire 1999 “remarkable five-year journey” from “cashing benefit checks at the post office in Leith”[102]
  • fan letter “Dear sir” confirming name strategy success[103]
  • limits visits to close friends, careful to protect security and not be too familiar with others[103]
  • discussion of fame and start of discussion of “concerned parents”[104]
  • banned in Australia, danger of occult[105]
  • in the end “enchanced [her] public profile”[106]
  • whole lot of publication and revenue numbers[107]
  •  Done King’s Cross Station (for image caption)[108]
  • “having no job, no money, and no marriage meant there was absolutely nothing left to lose” … gave her “courage … to find … worth as writer”[109]

Chapter 14: Sweet Charity

  • “rich and famous” now had “confidence … that emboldened her to stand up and be counted on issues that were important to her” … although she “sought to avoid publicity”.[110]
  • “single biggest donation to a charity—the royalties from two small books to Comic Relief”.[110]
  • 500,000 pounds (then $750,000) to National Council for One Parent Families … september 2000 ambassador … “rages at the negative stereotyping of single parents” … mentions importance of the piece she wrote for the Sun [110] … have I ever found that article ???
  • the Maggie’s Centres in Edinburgh, “counselling and support for cancer victims and their familes”, after a friend’s cancer diagnosis … [111] we have no mention of this
  • MS Society Scotland[112] (this page seems to be one source of myth about highest rate in world)
  • mentions piece she wrote for Observor in which “the sufferings her mother had to endure was almost tangible and boiled into outrage”[112]
  • Comic Relief books …[113]
  • Labour Party, Gordon Brown … first speech as ambassador for National Council for One Parent Families … “We should judge how civilized a society is not by what it prefers to call normal but by how it treats its most vulnerable members.”[114]
  • agreed to contribute to book by his wife … the narrative here makes it sound like she first was friends with Gordon, then Sarah, while we seem to present the opposite, need to check, gloss though.[115]

Chapter 15: And the Winner is …

  •  Done Philosopher’s Stone won 21 awards in four years.[116]
  •  Done “short-listed three times for the Carnegie Medal, the most prestigious accolade of children’s literature”[116]
  •  Done Whitbread[116]
  •  Done [117] correct pronunciation of her name, rolling pin not howling
  • “always happier and more relaxed in the company of children” … “treats them as equals” according to parents who attend[118]
  • on the day she was scheduled to accept OBE at Buckhingham Palace from the Queen, she was instead watching Jessica’s primary school Christmas play … “always puts anything involving Jessica first” … “The importance of the bond between mother and child illuminates the Harry Potter books just as it has influenced Joanne’s own life.”[119]
  •  Done listed by Book Magazine among “ten most influential people in publishing” (we don’t have this, need to find) (could be the same most influential we already have, not worth checking)
  • chronology introduces Stouffer allegations after Queen/OBE[119]

Chapter 16: Fort Knox

  • verifies Kensington home and value, lists her various wealth designations at that point[120]
  • did not sell her Leith flat, gave it to a single mother, daughter was friends with Jessica “The gift is typical of her quiet generosity.”[121]
  • discusses revenue from merchandising, probably too dated to be useful[122]
  • father-daughter relationship with Little, why did that change re Blair change ? [123]
  • “ruthlessly efficient in her business dealing”[123]
  • Jane Austen favorite[124]
  • “takes pride in her independence”[125]

Chapter 17: A New Chapter

Note: fix order in article, they met first, found house together, then married

  • Murray “similarity to Harry Potter” in appearance “round-framed glasses” “boyish fringe” “six years younger than Joanne”[126]
  •  Done - leave this out since other sources say friend of sister - met at “house of mutual friend” “immediately smitten”[126] (contradiction with sister somewhere, need to fix)
  • was married but separated, “solid middle-class professional” “reserved” in contrast to her “life and soul of the gathering”[127]
  • Jessica is called Jessie[128]
  • breach of daughter’s privacy by press photos, ruling[129]
  • "while the film as being shot, Joanne played a very active role behind the scenes … It was reported that she had enjoyed an unprecedented power of veto over the choice of director, writer, and all the actors."[130] (not usable, unable to verify who reported this)
  • Neil and Joanne needed a more private quiet place to get away[131]
  • found Killiechasie, includes description[132]
  • Joanne arranged for two film premieres to benefit Maggie’s Centres and MS Society of Scotland[133]
  •  Done Chipping Sodbury again !!!! “Amusingly, the [BBC Television] documentary still erroneously claimed that Joanne was born in Chipping Sodbury. Yet despite the mistake, the good folk of Yate are pressing for some kind of plaque or feature in their town to record it as her place of birth.”[134]
  • wedding (NOTE: look up Episcopal priest)[134]
  • fifteen guests “sworn to secrecy” friend “besotted with each other”[135]
  • bridesmaids Di, Jessica, Neil’s sister[135]

Afterthoughts

  • talk about press mistakes, privacy issues, how much of Joanne’s own life is in her books (“she writes Harry Potter for herself”[136]
  • Sun article, and The Scotsman article about her mother[137] cannot find these articles

New Yorker

  • Finished Potter shortly before starting teacher-training course.[18]
  • scoffs at "overdramatization" of her "period of hardship", but "broke single mother, in poor accommodations, at a time of high unemployment"[18]
  •  Done Neil Murray, friend of her sister's.[18] … only source that says this, others say met through mutual friend, so leave this out.
  • "exasperated by the media"[18]

Other

 Done Bought Church Cottage in 2020: [1]
 Done Charitable donation from law firm after identity revealed Battersby, Matilda (31 July 2013). "JK Rowling wins 'substantial donation' to charity from law firm behind Robert Galbraith confidentiality leak". The Independent. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
 Done Net worth 2020: Hills, MeganC. (7 May 2020). "JK Rowling net worth 2020: How much the Harry Potter author earns and donates to charity". Evening Standard. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

NYT

Jordan, Tina (16 September 2018). "J.K. Rowling's Friend Robert Galbraith Has Something to Say". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2022.

  • WP before launch of Lethal White … describes her writing process
  • WP “always wanted to write classic whodunits in a contemporary setting”
  • WP “central puzzle can be clothed a million different ways. There’s also something mythic about a lone detective or a duo, righters of wrongs, imposers of order on chaos”
  • WP “I’m very interested in the power of names and naming and I can’t really get to grips with characters until I’ve settled on their name.”
  • “… I think you’re shaped by literally everything you read when you’re young, and as my mother filled the house with books, … “
  • WP “I’m definitely a planner.” Started Lethal White with nine-column spreadsheet … her “initial inspiration may be one simple idea with no start or finish, but I never start writing a book unless I know exactly where I’m heading.”

The Scotsman

Harry and Me [138]

  • Need to single out Little White Horse,[138] as she does … we have it now as one of many
  • “thinking radical thoughts”[138] ties to other comments above
  • parents influence on choice of studies,[138] ties to what Smith says, and her own website (old)
  • bilingual secretary[138]
  • tribute to where her parents married,[138] look that up .. her parents were married at All Saints Parish Church, Fairmead Road, Tufnell Park, "a Victorian monstrosity of 1884, so large it could have comfortably held two or three weddings at the same time"[139]
  • confirms concept formed before move to Manchester[138] = ?? While stil at AI?
  • she moved about a month before mother’s death[138] ... makes it November 1990
  • mother’s things stolen, “wanted to get away”[138]
  • stay with sister “for Christmas”[138]
  • push to finish book before teacher training course as she knew she might not be able to finish once started course[138]
  • Nicolson’s brother-in-law

The JK Rowling Story [140]

  • “Books were spread around the house, crammed in every room"[140]
  • puts Sylvia Morgan as headmaster of Hogwarts (“work its way into”)[140]
  • mother “brilliant” “imaginative”[140]
  • “happy and stable” home before mother’s illness[140]
  • as temp secretary, wrote two adult novels, never published[140]
  • “speed of his decision to move in with his secretary” .. “fault—line now separated them”[140]
  • 17 November 1993 row[140] … ties to later back to Scotland with sister for Christmas
  • stayed with sister only a few weeks[140]
  • depression in “new year”[140]
  • 1995 teaching student “keen and well-organised” graduated June 1996 almost same time as news of first publication[140]

El Pais interview

https://elpais.com/diario/2008/02/08/cultura/1202425201_850215.html [141]

  • describes herself as enjoying being alone[141]
    Is this a reference to "Disfruto de la soledad"? If so, wouldn't a closer translation be enjoying solitude?A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 21:39, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
    Yes, better, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:00, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
  • mentions that some members of press were kind to her[141]
    An interesting aspect of this is how one of them told her she had the right to keep her daughter away from the media attention and from photographers, in case it might help describe her relationship with the press in other sections.A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 21:39, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
  • directly states “evident parallelism” between Harry confronting his own mortality and her experience with her mother’s death[141]
    Definitivamente. Y me resulta extraordinario que a pesar de que todos sabemos que vamos a morir, la muerte sigue siendo un misterio. Pensamos que la muerte es como algo secreto que le ocurre a muy poca gente. Y de pronto alguien cercano se muere y entonces cae la bomba. Harry tiene un entendimiento precoz de la muerte, mucho antes de ese capítulo 34. Y eso tiene un evidente paralelismo con mi vida. Si alguien de tu vida cercana se muere, como se murió mi madre, se vuelve explícito el hecho de que la muerte nos llega a todos. Y es algo con lo que has de vivir siempre.
  • WP writing the first book saved her life … evasion … trying to clarify matters that concerned her … like love, loss, separation, death … all reflected in the first book.[141]
    Le diré una cosa. A mí me salvó la vida el mero hecho de escribir el primer libro. Siempre me dicen que el mundo que inventé es irreal; fue eso lo que me sirvió para evadirme. Sí, es cierto, es irreal hasta un punto. Pero no porque mi mundo fuera mágico, sino porque todos los escritores se evaden. Además, yo no lo hacía sólo para evadirme sino porque buscaba aclararme con asuntos que me preocupaban. Asuntos como el amor, la pérdida, la separación, la muerte... Y todo eso queda reflejado en el primer libro.
  • WP She uses significant dates relating to her own life. Uses Harry’s birthday as her own, for example. Numbers and dates that appear in the books relate to her.[141]
    P. Sus libros parece que están llenos de claves personales.
    R. Tiendo a usar fechas significativas. Cuando necesito una fecha o un número, uso algo que está relacionado con mi vida personal. No sé por qué hago eso, es un tic. El cumpleaños de Harry es el mío, por ejemplo. Los números que aparecen o las fechas que vienen en los libros tienen relación conmigo.
  • burned out before fourth book, thought she could not write anymore, then met Neil Murray:[141]
    R. Cuando llegué al cuarto libro estaba muy quemada. Había producido un libro por año durante cuatro años, mientras criaba a mi hija sola, sin niñera ni ayuda de ningún tipo. Me sentía exhausta. Y realmente pensé: "Ya no puedo más, tengo que parar". Y se lo dije a mi editor, que si seguía así no iba a poder seguir escribiendo. Y entonces conocí al que es ahora mi segundo marido.
  • WP Again, reinforces that Harry is her, and talks about death of her mother:[141]
    P. El final es conmovedor: "La cicatriz [de Harry] seguía allí y después de 19 años ya no duele".
    R. Es simbólico. Todos repetimos la mentira una y otra vez: que el tiempo lo cura todo. Y no es verdad. Hay cosas que no se curan, como cuando alguien a quien quieres muere.
  • states that she gives her personal attributes, shortcomings, to Harry
    R. Estoy totalmente de acuerdo. Le he dado a Harry mi fallo, que es una tendencia a encerrarme, a aislarme cuando estoy bajo presión, triste o feliz. Tiendo a aislarme. Pero sé que eso no está bien, que no es saludable. Y eso se lo di a Harry. Aunque eso sea también lo que le hace heroico, lo que le prepara para actuar por sí solo.

Birthplace

Done

The whole mess is glossed in the article, and should be clarified in footnotes, making use of better sources than we are now. The presence of an inline footnote on the matter indicates that we haven't provided the necessary clarity. The discrepancy between Yate General Hospital on her website, and Chipping Sodbury in sources needs explanation in a footnote. We say:

  • Joanne Rowling was born on 31 July 1965[21] in Yate, Gloucestershire,[22][23]

Sources say Chipping Sudbury

    • Scotsman JK Rowling story has her born at Cottage Hospital, Chipping Sudbury
    • Pugh page 2 has her born at Chipping Sodbury General Hospital
    • Smith p. 4 Chipping Sodbury "Yate's elegant neighbor", and has her born at Cottage Hospital, p. 5, with birth certificate reproduced on p. 6

The whole mess is sorted via this book:

References

[4] [141][18][138][140]

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