Talk:Sarah Waters
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Query
I apologise if I'm being slow on the uptake, but although it's implied throughout the article that she has "fallen in love with women" but "was always attracted to boys", where does she lie on the spectrum of sexuality - is she actually lesbian, or bisexual? And should the article be modified to clarify this? Amzi (Talk To Me) 23:05, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
"Tipping the velvet"
The article on cunnilingus mentions "tipping the velvet" as a euphemism introduced by this author as a deliberate faux-Victorian phrase, whereas this article says makes it sound like a genuine Victorian phrase. Which is it? 86.131.93.66 17:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
PhD from Oxford?
That doesn't sound right. Is this an honorary degree? Her earned PhD seems to be from Queen Mary and Westfield College (as it was) of London University. See http://193.63.81.241/search/a?SEARCH=waters%2C+sarah . An Oxford Doctorate, in any case, is known as a DPhil not a PhD. I've made the necessary alterations.
Auction
The following excerpt is somewhat confusing.
Waters' popularity in England became evident in 2005 when she received the highest bid during an auction where a real person's name would be immortalized in one of her novels. The auction featured many notable British novelists, and the bidder, author Martina Cole, had a modified version of her name featured in Waters' latest novel, The Night Watch.
- Emiellaiendiay 04:31, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- What about it do you find unclear, exactly? There is a source. Feel free to edit the section you feel it is needed. María: (habla ~ cosas) 13:15, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
This article is written exceptionally poorly. The sentence regarding the bidding is woefully incoherent. Can we please get a clarification or a rewrite on this "source"?
- I wouldn't go so far as to say it's written exceptionally poorly (it's come a long way), but if you believe this is the case, please remember that you are welcome to edit it. I altered the bidding comment to so that it now appears as thus: "In 2005, Waters received the highest bid (£1,000) during a charity auction in which the prize was the opportunity to have the winner's name immortalized in The Night Watch. The auction featured many notable British novelists, and the highest bidder, author Martina Cole, had a modified version of her name feature in the novel."[1] Is there anything else that needs clarification? Also, the source is supplied in the form of a footnote. María (habla conmigo) 14:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
Use Of The Term Gay
This is the 21st Century and speakers of English are beginning to come to terms with the fact that the word gay is not synonymous with the word lesbian. Waters needs to stop trying go counter to this trend. While one could get away with that until the current century, it was always a sort of semantic power play in which the word gay was being misappropriated by those who envied the attention that it drew by those who couldn't gain that attention on their own terms.Godofredo29 (talk) 16:49, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
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