Talk:A Northern Light

Plot and characters
Shouldn't there be more of an explination of the plot? A list of characters perhaps? My eyes see all 03:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It is a little odd. I got to this page from Emily Baxter, an article stub about a character in the novel (who also uses the name of Miss Wilcox, apparently) but examining the article I see no sign of either name.  This means I cannot decide whether Emily Baxter is an important enough character to have her own article.  I think I'll simply merge the article to this one, because the information in that article is brief and almost certainly should all be in this one.  --Tony Sidaway 11:14, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Awards
I've moved the awards section to just underneath the lead because of their real world significance, and tidied up the inline references (thanks to whoever provided these). --Tony Sidaway 11:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Four years later I have expanded coverage of the British Carnegie Medal achievements, located that in the lead section, and relegated the rest back to the foot of the article. -P64

Background
Meanwhile I have moved "Nonfiction element" up from the foot to section 1 --without revising it, although it greatly needs expansion. Probably it should use the common section 1 heading "Background" [or "Origin"]; briefly describe both the 1906 case and what Theodore Dreiser made of it. --P64 (talk) 21:08, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The plot section is too long. It includes Donnelly's fictionalisation of the 1906 episode (using real names and places unlike Dreiser). We do call this a historical novel so an orderly explanation of the historical basis is appropriate. Also Dreiser's fictionalization is much different and he's famous too! We now mention An American Tragedy in the lead and say no more. --P64 (talk) 00:07, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

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