Talk:Margaret Drabble
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Feud
[edit]'Drabble has famously been engaged in a long-running feud with her novelist sister, A. S. Byatt, over the alleged appropriation of a family tea-set in one of her novels.'
Not even the link to the Telegraph interview actually explains what this is about. Apparently Byatt wanted to write about their family tea-set in a work of fiction, but Drabble did it first. Did Drabble break some agreement? And what was the story anyway? Valetude (talk) 17:42, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Indeed, it seems that the feud was not just over the tea-set. Somebody who known the whole story should rewrite this section... Bazuz (talk) 21:42, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
Iraq section
[edit]I feel that this whole section is non-encyclopedic. If she has written a book or a major article about the subject, this could be referenced. But this is just being used as an outlet for her views. Wikipedia is not here to propagate opinions. Valetude (talk) 18:22, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
- I agree. Lots of people were horrified by the Iraq war and Britain's participation in it. The prominence and size of the section makes her sound like some sort of anti-American crackpot, but her revulsion was widely shared at the time. This information could be condensed into a single sentence. --Ef80 (talk) 15:57, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
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Bibliography
[edit]I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 09:27, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Novels
[edit]As she has, since, written at least one novel (The Dark Flood Rises, her 19th, 2019- even mentioned in a 2022 episode of Avenue 5) perhaps the text needs tweaking. ELSchissel (talk) 01:09, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
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