Talk:A Northern Light

Plot and characters

Shouldn't there be more of an explination of the plot? A list of characters perhaps? My eyes see all 03:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

It is a little odd. I got to this page from Emily Baxter, an article stub about a character in the novel (who also uses the name of Miss Wilcox, apparently) but examining the article I see no sign of either name. This means I cannot decide whether Emily Baxter is an important enough character to have her own article. I think I'll simply merge the article to this one, because the information in that article is brief and almost certainly should all be in this one. --Tony Sidaway 11:14, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Awards

I've moved the awards section to just underneath the lead because of their real world significance, and tidied up the inline references (thanks to whoever provided these). --Tony Sidaway 11:48, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Four years later I have expanded coverage of the British Carnegie Medal achievements, located that in the lead section, and relegated the rest back to the foot of the article. -P64

Background

Meanwhile I have moved "Nonfiction element" up from the foot to section 1 --without revising it, although it greatly needs expansion. Probably it should use the common section 1 heading "Background" [or "Origin"]; briefly describe both the 1906 case and what Theodore Dreiser made of it. --P64 (talk) 21:08, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

The plot section is too long. It includes Donnelly's fictionalisation of the 1906 episode (using real names and places unlike Dreiser). We do call this a historical novel so an orderly explanation of the historical basis is appropriate. Also Dreiser's fictionalization is much different and he's famous too! We now mention An American Tragedy in the lead and say no more. --P64 (talk) 00:07, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Sources

• [ref name=prdir2003] "Press releases for the 2003 Awards, presented in 2004". Press Desk. CILIP. Retrieved 2012-07-28.[/ref]

Two releases 9 July 2004 feature Donnelly and A Gathering Light. See also the earlier release 30 April 2004, "... Judges Comments on the Shortlist".

The CILIP "Shadowing Site" seems at a glance to serve a youth program for the current/latest year, without any archive, but old material may be available.

-P64 2012-07-28; --P64 (talk) 00:07, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Today during visit for another purpose, I have inserted a formal reference to those 2003 CILIP press releases without using them substantially.

References to the novel by page, such as "Donnelly, p. 327", need support by a formal citation of the edition --once at the bottom of section References. We should use the first edition if possible. Can anyone confirm or correct whether the current page references do fit the first edition?

• Example: Tamar (novel)#References

--P64 (talk) 21:25, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

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