User:Jmidgaze/sandboxMaryStewartCutting

I'm writing here in my sandbox for review by Elysia.

I've been able to find some genuine mistakes, due to the confusion between a mother and daughter, both named Mary Stewart Cutting.

In an effort to clarify things the mother has had her birth name of Doubleday added in to the title of her entry, but she never published under that name. I wonder if that name could be put in brackets to indicate that? Or even eliminated, with a clarification added tot he disambiguation page? Also, the daughter should be listed as Mary Stewart Cutting, Jr. As it stands, the person searching for the author by the name that's on the title page of her books gets sent to the wrong person. So I suppose my first question is, is there anything special about changing the title of an entry?

The article on the mother is quite good. Something I don't feel clear about yet is assessment--I don't know that I'm someone who should be assessing, yet? but I've read it quite carefully and if I could register that somewhere i would. I plan to add a photo, listings of her novels, and some other miscellaneous information. I'm thinking I could put links to the books--I have another question here: there are excellent full-page scans on Hathi Trust, which I tend to prefer to Project Gutenberg. But it seems like the norm is the latter?

It seems more urgent to edit the existing page on the daughter, which is *full* of errors. The photograph there is of her mother. I will cut that from this page and move it to her mother's page! I don't have a photo of the daughter to substitute.

The article also lists her birth date as 1851, the same as her mother's (a manifest impossibility!) I have checked the US Census and it shows that 1879 is correct. So another question is, do I need a citation for that?

I see no reason that the article should include a link to her grandfather's grave etc--I'm rewriting it below.

I'm rewriting below--see the 'draft text.' I'm looking for a source separate from the obit for her being a suffragist--have a request through interlibrary loan -- but really my only source for most of it is the obit. and I'm wondering if I should cite it more than once to make that clear.

I did go and find her articles in the New York Times in 1925 but those will not be available to people who don't subscribe so I'm not sure I should put those links?

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/09/20/120634624.html?pageNumber=148 https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1925/03/08/101646022.html?pageNumber=166

Notes to self

1879 (Source: US Census 1880--East Orange NJ--she was 1) lots of info about family in census but it does not seem like duplicating what's on her mother's page is appropriate-MSC Jr is not very notable   do the gravesites for the Doubledays belong here? I don't think so

was she an author as first sentence says? the only evidence of this is in the NYT obituary--a couple of articles--she might be characterized as a journalist based on that. I think this is the result of the confusion between her and her mother. But perhaps don't change to journalist because I don't have a lot of evidence of that either.

The photograph in the article is definitely that of her mother--identifical with the Library of Congress photo. It should be deleted.

Draft Text

Mary Stewart Cutting (1879 – February 11, 1928) was an American writer and a suffragist.

Biography
Mary Stewart Cutting, Jr., was the daughter of Charles Weed Cutting and the novelist Mary Stewart Cutting. Her maternal grandfather was the Civil War general Ulysses Doubleday (general); her maternal grandmother's birth name was Stewart. Because her name is the same as her mother's, and because the daughter survived her mother by only four years, the two women are frequently confused.

Mary Stewart Cutting, Jr., was born in New Jersey, where she became a well-known suffragist. She was also the author of magazine and newspaper articles.

According to her New York Times obituary, she died on February 11, 1928 in Manhattan, New York City, after being ill for a month.