Talk:Alice Elgar

Alice, Lady Elgar
This is a copy from a section on the Talk page for Edward Elgar...

Now there is a page for Caroline Alice Elgar, it would seem desirable to move material from the admirable paragraph on Alice in this article (on Edward Elgar) to her own page, while leaving sufficient relevant material behind. There is too much about Alice in the Edward Elgar article now. Seeing the need, I started the page for Alice myself, and I am feeling a bit lonely that no-one else has added to it or criticised it yet - both are needed. I'll leave the decanting for someone else. P0mbal (talk) 16:37, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

I shall stop editing the C.A.E. page (I have beeen building it up in gradually) at least until someone else had edited it. P0mbal (talk) 16:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Song: A spear, a sword
The only reference to this song I have found is in The Lied and Art Song Texts page - Caroline Alice Elgar. It's certainly not in Caractacus (confused with Sword Song?). Michael Kennedy in his biography of Elgar mentions it as written by Elgar in 1892, but not with Alice's name against it. Therefore removed from list of poems by Alice until some evidence found. P0mbal (talk) 20:10, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Works
Regarding the Works section of this page, I am wondering if Elgar's poetry should be listed in works under fiction? or if poetry should just be set aside as a separate section (one that could be divided between lyrics and those poems not set to music?), especially since she was known as both a poet and a writer of fiction? Is poetry not considered its own genre independent from non and/or fiction considerations? Even if poetry be either fiction or non-fiction, as one of the her poems is titled "Carice" after her daughter, they would need to be designated individually as fiction/nonfiction. 66.229.179.206 (talk) 09:13, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Ploughing a lonely furrow
Have just seen your January note on the Edward Elgar talk page. You seem, at first glance, to have covered all the sources I can lay hands on - and more, but I'll have a trawl of my shelves and library corners of the web and see if I can add anything useful. - Tim riley (talk) 18:36, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Photo of Alice at her high desk
Photograpers direct has the photo on their website and date it at 1911. P0mbal (talk) 23:31, 2 May 2010 (UTC)