Talk:Mathilde Blind

Copy edit
I have flagged this article as needing copy editing. I don't think putting the entire DNB article here was the best choice since it is already at Wikisource, but given that it is now here, the rest of the article needs to be integrated with it. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 16:15, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

This entry needs some serious work by people who know their European history
Clearly, the Mazzini meant is almost surely the noted Giuseppe Mazzini http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Mazzini and that should definitely be cited and elaborated upon, as an editor has noted. Nearly50 (talk) 21:18, 2 May 2013 (UTC)Nearly50

Is nothing at all known of her mother?
Is it because nothing whatever is known about Blind's mother that the mother is not mentioned? Nearly50 (talk) 21:22, 2 May 2013 (UTC)Nearly50

Is there any information about Blind's probable Jewishness?
Given that her birth father's name was Cohen, is there any information about whether she perceived herself as Jewish? If so, did she address Jewish themes in her work? Did she experience any anti-semitism? Nearly50 (talk) 22:12, 2 May 2013 (UTC)Nearly50

Footnotes don't jibe
The footnotes at the bottom of the page don't match with what is on the page itself--6 and 7 are missing in the non references section of the article. Nearly50 (talk) 22:21, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

They are there. Use search (Ctr+F) if you want to check again.Bmcln1 (talk) 22:35, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

I don't think you are following me. The footnotes are in the footnotes section, but in the text the numbers skips from 5 to 8 with no intervening 6 and 7. See here:

"Some of her sonnets are exceedingly impressive; she nevertheless did her powers greatest justice when her singing robes were laid aside. Her reputation would be enhanced by a judicious selection from her correspondence.[5]

More recently she has attracted the attention of scholars specializing in women's writing. As one website puts it, "Her burning sense of political and social injustice runs like a unifying thread through her work. Her poetry combines great beauty of sound and image with vigorous narrative, delineation of character, emotional expressiveness, and engagement with intellectual ideas." The site mentions George Eliot, George Sands and Elizabeth Barrett Browning as influences on her.[8] Isobel Armstrong, re-evaluating the longer works, notably "The Heather on Fire" and "The Ascent of Man", saw in them "a gendered tradition in women's poetry of the nineteenth century." She noted that Blind, by re-configuring "a new myth of creativity and gender", demonstrated the best that this tradition could achieve in social and political analysis.[9]"

Nearly50 (talk) 01:36, 7 May 2013 (UTC)Nearly50

The first paragrah, re: older child
If Mathilde was the older child of a father who died in infancy, then I think her sibling(s) should be mentioned, otherwise she is just the child or the only child.Lorrie (talk) 14:37, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Reference 8, ]http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=blinma], states that she was the younger of two children.Lorrie (talk) 14:42, 19 June 2013 (UTC)