Talk:Jane Austen/Archive 10

Semi-protected edit request on 27 August 2021
In InfoBox, change "Period: 1787 to 1809-11" to "Period: 1787 to 1817" Reason: Austen was writing until her death in 1817. I can find no explanation in the text to suggest any reason to have an ambiguous 1809-11 as the end of her writing period. 2A00:23C6:AB81:6601:F121:3003:FD01:EE92 (talk) 12:42, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:46, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 September 2021
Change "The literary critic Noel King asserted rather stupidly in 1953" to "The literary critic Noel King commented in 1953".

Reason: the current sentence does not fit Wikipedia's neutral point of view standards.


 * ✅ Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:34, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 January 2022
Add to 6.4. Adaptations - Emma (2020 film) with Anya Taylor-Joy, directed by Autumn de Wilde 109.75.93.236 (talk) 17:18, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Given that the section in question isn't a simple list, you need to specify exactly how you'd like to see it incorporated into the text. PianoDan (talk) 19:14, 21 January 2022 (UTC)


 * I guess it's Emma (2020 film). Martinevans123 (talk) 19:22, 21 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Right, but edit requests need to be absolutely explicit: "Please change 'Jane Austin was eaten by a werewolf' to 'Jane Austin was eaten by a capybara'." is the level of "change X to Y" detail needed. If the article just had a list of movies at that point, then it would be pretty clear what was being asked, but it's a narrative paragraph. PianoDan (talk) 21:20, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Cause of death
May be of some use to the article. 2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA (talk) 23:01, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * The author Stephanie Barron says: "I found one possible answer in a 2002 study by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The study found that women who experience early-onset menopause, or premature ovarian failure, are three hundred times more likely to develop autoimmune destruction of the adrenal glands—or Addison’s Disease." The source she uses is this one. All a bit speculative. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:12, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Refs for Jane Austen Society of Pakistan

 * https://muse.jhu.edu/article/741215
 * https://www.khaleejtimes.com/wknd/keeping-jane-austen-alive-in-pakistan
 * https://www.khaleejtimes.com/arts-and-culture/keeping-jane-austen-alive-in-the-uae
 * https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-42417897
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffam7Xrw4cU
 * https://www.outlookindia.com/culture-society/best-known-women-writers-from-pakistan-news-196822

&#32;Bookku, &#39;Encyclopedias &#61; expanding information &#38; knowledge&#39; (talk) 07:19, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Does not make sense
As each generation of eldest sons received inheritances, the wealth was divided [...] Isn't the object of primogeniture to keep the wealth undivided? Austen's father must have been a younger brother, who did not inherit anything. Weatherford (talk) 18:58, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Descendant of Owain Glyndŵr via the Crofts
Iv'e added a link here to a Jane Austen page outlining her links, however after a little bit of research, I could not track down a valid article through newspaper archives to solidify this to add to this page, if someone else has more patience than me to track down a reliable source to confirm this then that'd be great. Hogyncymru (talk) 12:28, 16 December 2022 (UTC) Hogyncymru (talk) 12:28, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Link missing to Wikipedia article on R.W. Chapman - Minor flag (new editor; sorry)
In 1923, R.W. Chapman published the first scholarly edition of Austen's collected works, which was also the first scholarly edition of any English novelist. Syzygytop (talk) 07:32, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

*Two Girls of Eighteen* as lost work of Jane Austen?
I see this book is available: Jane Austen's Lost Novel: Its Importance for Understanding the Development of Her Art. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by P.J. Allen. (ISBN: 9781800460140)

But I don't find other notice of it, including here. "Two Girls of Eighteen" of 1806 is credited to George Walker (novelist) without comment.

Has anyone here considered adding this? ABS (talk) 23:32, 12 January 2023 (UTC)


 * I suppose this is largely answered by Deborah Yaffe's 9/30/20 blog post. ABS (talk) 23:48, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

D'Arcy Wentworth
Dear Austenites of Wikipedia: Please could you go and look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth#Private_life. Wentworth's a fascinating character - the first European to voluntarily emigrate to Australia - but people keep vandalizing his page with some nonsense (citing a self-published book) saying that he and Austen were secretly married at Gretna in 1789 but her family disapproved and so he ran away to Sydney and she named Mr. Darcy and Col. Wentworth after him. Unfortunately, because no-one has posted an explicit source saying that this *is* nonsense, it gets put back every time it's removed. Thanks. 194.74.34.226 (talk) 14:30, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 February 2023
Under ===Education=== please change "until she attended boarding school ith her sister" to "until she attended boarding school  with her sister"

Pat Rooney 89.101.182.34 (talk) 18:52, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Thanks! Favonian (talk) 19:00, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

literary critic Noel King
Referenced in "Published author" section is not the professional footballer Noel King of the Wikipedia link. Rairden (talk) 23:07, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on July 4 2023
Under ===Genre and style=== the quoted passage from Pride and Prejudice has "... and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that the groundwork of disapprobation". The word "that" is a typo. It should read "and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.138.49.42 (talk • contribs) 07:58, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Good eye. Deauthorized. (talk) 08:57, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Edit-undo.svg Undone: This request has been undone. This is a directly copied quote from the source. If the source flubbed it, it will have to be noted Hyphenation Expert (talk) 19:40, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 December 2023
Mentioned year is wrong, both were published in 1817.

"She wrote two other novels—Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818—and began another, eventually titled Sanditon, but died before its completion." Adocys (talk) 22:37, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ RudolfRed (talk) 00:46, 9 December 2023 (UTC)