User talk:Urve

Russian Jewish painter
Marc Chagall
created the stained-glass windows
of the church of St. Stephan in Mainz
as a sign of Jewish-German reconciliation.

look and listen

5 December 2006

Vertraut den neuen Wegen

(from User:Gerda Arendt/Stories)

May music

May songs

my story today

I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day. And the following day we sang it for the composer ;)

I heard pleasant music today - did you know a string quartet with two cellos (and no article yet in English? - I nominated Soňa Červená for GA just to give her a bit more exposure. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

my story today is that 300 years ago today, Bach became Thomaskantor, with BWV 75, writing music history. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:42, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Can I interest you in some free work...? :)

Hello Urve, since you mentioned editing a bit in the area of eighteenth century fiction, I wondered if you might take an interest in the Featured Article Review for Mary: A Fiction, Mary Wollstonecraft's first novel. I poked around a little to think about useful sources but the bug hasn't fully bitten me to sit down with the editing itself. So I thought I'd send you the link and see if the big bites you instead! Of course it may not appeal to you so no need to trouble yourself if it doesn't spark an interest, but I figured there was no harm in mentioning it. I hope your editing is happy, wherever it's occurring :) ~ L 🌸 (talk) 06:26, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, LEvalyn. I recently picked up a few dozen books on romantic lit (among other things), but a quick look through their indices suggests they're not helpful for this; mostly about poetry, and even if they were about Wollstonecraft, many are ancient ... like 1930s ancient :) I have two thoughts, though I know nothing about Mary, so maybe they're not useful. The first is that her "fiction isn't studied with great intensity" now, as you say, but I think this is because of movements within feminism and nineteenth-century studies ... while the recovery of women authors from this era used to be the craze in the 90s, I imagine there's not a huge appetite for this anymore (though I know a few people whose work is just that, so I don't mean anything negative by my suggestion). So perhaps our hands are just tied; certainly more recent scholarship exists, but I doubt it meaningfully changes the landscape. Relatedly, my next thought is that FA-adjacent areas on WP are a hellscape of nit-picking concerns by those who don't know mud from ... well, a certain substance that looks like mud ... and is unworthy of serious attention, unless you're in a block or get bitten by the "big" (:P) or want to avoid something, in which case OK. I might take a look.

I should hopefully have more time for editing now. I do have an article in progress about an interesting Gothic story that I might email you in a few weeks about, I think you'd like it. I have a draft for Telling Complexions, which is an interesting book, but maybe not worth reading cover-to-cover. What are you working on?

BTW, I was going to mention this the other week but forgot. If your institution doesn't have access to Cambridge University Press's Orlando, like mine doesn't, the Wikipedia Library does. Our article on Bonhôte fails to mention her cancer, but there's info there. It's a headache to navigate through WL, though - looking once for something was too difficult so I give up. Urve (talk) 07:17, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

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Bugchasing GAR

Hi Urve! I've initiated a GAR for the Bugchasing article, which you can see here. Isthistwisted (talk) 02:33, 15 June 2023 (UTC)