Talk:Sydney, Lady Morgan

Date of Birth
I note that the Library of Congress has her born in 1783, rather than ca. 1776. This is its citation:
 * Boase, F. Modern Eng. biog., 1965 |b (Morgan, Sydney, Lady Morgan; b. 12/25/1783; d. 4/14/1859

I don’t know which of Wikipedia and the Library of Congress is more up to date. (Sometimes it’s one, sometimes the other.)

Not sure how to get a permalink to an loc authority file, but you can find it by going to authorities.loc.gov and searching for the name Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859.

Ian Spackman (talk) 17:42, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

link rot
www.sydneyowenson.com doesn't answer. Need a new link. 71.163.114.49 (talk) 00:36, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Criticism of France
Hello,

I'm just a casual contributor to Wikipedia, and have neither the skill nor the confidence to edit the page. However I'd like to signal a problem with the article: it's very much in favour of Lady Morgan's treatise on France, and claims that she knew the peasantry very well. I'm not sure how she knew them so well, but if there is good grounding for this claim, I will freely recognize my mistake.

My main concern is that a rather vigorous attack by William Playfair was deployed in "France as it is, Not Lady Morgan's France". There is a particularly strong attack against her, noting that she saw the best part of the french peasantry, in the best season, and completely idealised them. However, it should be noted that he elsewhere notes that no nation is successful in trade if it doesn't trade with England, and that the french are, I quote 'easily pleased, and greatly disposed to please'. He's obviously not free of his own shortcomings.

I still feel like this is enough grounding for a more balanced tone in the article when it comes to discussing Lady Morgan's work.

the ebook: https://archive.org/details/franceasitisnot00playgoog the page: introduction, xxxvii

87.112.168.187 (talk) 20:11, 7 November 2016 (UTC)pc