Talk:Margery Latimer

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Another picture of Margery Latimer can be found at. The same page contains the Toomer/Latimer photograph, perhaps whoever uploaded it supplied details?

On the other hand, some of the information on that page thinks she was born in 1898, and has no idea when she died. Choor monster (talk) 16:18, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

To Parkwells
I am going to be reverting many of your changes. They seem to be drifting away from an encyclopedic article about Latimer but to more like an independently published essay. Moreover, many of your edits are tweaks that simply seem to be pointless or misleading. For example, I wrote the Gale-Latimer relation was "conflicted". You changed that to "complex". The conflicted aspect is what mattered most to Latimer. "Complex" is an empty weasel word when it comes to the relation between any two close people. The source regarding Latimer being taken to the hospital simply hedged its claim, and that detail was in the article. Choor monster (talk) 20:21, 27 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Parkwell's additions and edits look useful and valid to me. Anna (talk) 18:30, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

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Was Latimer a "social activist", "feminist theorist"?
As of this writing, the Wikipedia article begins "Margery Bodine Latimer [...] was an American writer, feminist theorist, and social activist." This description of Latimer can be found verbatim on various websites, none of them authoritative sources and none of them offering supporting evidence or citations. The claim is presumably sourced from this Wikipedia article or another common source, but while reading through various scholarly sources on Latimer's life and work (including articles by Joy Castro and Emily Lutenski, and also the comprehensive bibliography of Latimer's published writings) and while reading many of Latimer's published articles, I have found nothing to support the claim that any of Latimer's writings could be considered "theoretical" or that any of her activities would today be characterized as a form of "social activism". (I assume the basis for the latter claim would be that Latimer and seven other young unmarried people (including her future husband Jean Toomer) lived in a communal arrangement in 1931 for 3–6 months; however, the arrangement was short-lived, and it does not appear to have had the aim of influencing society that is implied in the phrase "social activism".) Further down in the article, we read "She also reported on contemporary politics for The New Masses, a radical journal of the twenties." However, the only article that I have been able to find of Latimer's which appeared in The New Masses is a short story called "Picnic Day". None of these claims have citations and after a consulting various sources I am inclined to think that the lead characterization of Latimer as a "feminist theorist" and a "social activist" is groundless. Latimer was a novelist and a writer of short stories, and these other descriptions are misleading. It is true that her fiction reflects a feminist experience of the world or political orientation, but this is quite something different than claiming that Latimer was an activist and a theorist. For these reasons today I have removed the lede description of Latimer as a "feminist theorist, and social activist". If anyone is able to provide evidence and/or citations from authoritative sources in support of these claims, they would be quite welcome. Jacob (talk) 12:13, 23 October 2023 (UTC)