Talk:Jane Barlow

A number of the books listed as 'poetry collections' are actually fiction. There's a decent list here:

http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/b/Barlow_J/life.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.36.235.4 (talk) 14:27, 8 April 2015 (UTC)


 * This is a fair comment, see for instance 'Irish Ways': https://archive.org/details/irishways00barlrich. I therefore changed 'novelist' into 'writer', and sorted her work only by date. VWA (talk) 13:35, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

SF-novel
The SF-novel is not written by Jane Barlow. [https://archive.org/details/historyofworldof000barl History of a world of immortals without a god. Translated from an unpublished manuscript in the library of a continental university] by Antares Skorpios and The immortals' great quest by James Barlow are clearly the same book in a different edition.VWA (talk) 13:15, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps even more convincing: History of a world of immortals without a God on WorldCatVWA (talk) 14:20, 9 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I deleted the comments in the main article about the SF-novel.VWA (talk) 12:39, 5 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Again it is added that Jane Barlow wrote the Hesperos novel; she did not. A further argument: also the SFE has James Barlow as the author: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/barlow_james_william.
 * But the most convincing argument was given on p. 8 of Devine, M. (2017), In the common light of day. Carlow: Institute of Technology, Master Thesis, where Devine mentions that in a 1901 letter to Alfred Russel Wallace “she names her father as the author.” For clarity, the transcript of Jane Barlow's letter as mentioned in the Thesis is repeated here:
 * “It was very kind of you indeed to write about the little books, and your appreciation of my Father’s romance gives me the greatest pleasure. I was almost sure that it would interest you if you read it, but of course I was doubtful whether you would have leisure or inclination to do so. My Father is very much gratified by your letter, and with regard to your two criticisms wishes me to say that he has no doubt the Hesperian scientists soon found their hypothesis of a storm-causing satellite quite untenable, and that he agrees with you about the impossibility of so extensive a circle of acquaintances for people possessing merely human memory, but thinks it would be hard to fix limits for the development of the faculty among the Hesperians.” See http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/scientific-resources/collections/library-collections/wallace-letters-online/3207/3175/T/details.html.
 * Apparently, it is very difficult; this mix-up already exists for more than a hundred years and every now and then pops up again. If no one comes up with even more convincing evidence than this letter by Jane Barlow herself I will remove the sf title again in a week or so. VWA (talk) 20:03, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Date of birth
According to the church records Jane Barlow was born on the 17th of October 1856 in Dollymount, Clontarf, Dublin: https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details/e054f60005942. That is in agreement with the census of 1901 which shows that on Sunday the 31st of March 1901 she was 44 years old: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Howth/Ballyhoey/1270314. That this is indeed the same Jane Barlow can be seen here: http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/photos/tombstones/mt-jerome-68/target122.html. VWA (talk) 23:14, 20 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I changed her day of birth on the main page.VWA (talk) 11:47, 5 April 2017 (UTC)


 * In the article it is mentioned that she was the third child. I had found six children of whom Jane was the second. I now found that the Who was who indeed mentions that James Barlow had four sons and two daughters. Therefore I changed "third child" to "second child". VWA (talk) 00:06, 30 March 2019 (UTC)