Talk:Witch Week

School class level

2012-05-10, provide heading. Feel free to Anglicize it. -P64

Couldn't 2Y also refer to a streaming or primary school year?
—23:08, 13 February 2007‎ 90.241.18.19

Not in this sense. Did the children in Witch Week appear to be seven year olds? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.205.90 (talk) 23:29, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for watching. What brings you to Talk: Witch Week? --P64 (talk) 00:26, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Ah, was that an experimental first edit? If so: Now you know it works! Welcome to Wikipedia!

--P64 (talk) 00:32, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Remove section "Allusions to Other Works"?

The only allusion to other works is the possible Larwood/Lowood connection, and if there is no citation from the author, that connection is speculative. The grades (edition differences) have nothing to do with other works. And since Witch Week was written long before any of the Harry Potter books, there can obviously be no allusion to anything in that series. The entire WW/HP paragraph should be removed for that reason, and also because it's personal research.

I don't think there is enough basis for this section to exist.

The information about classes should be in a section about edition differences. Bunnasaurus (talk) 05:54, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Another editor deleted the long Harry Potter passage and inserted heading 5. "Differences in Eeditions" above the remarks about grade levels. The latter should identify "current" UK and US editions of the books as best possible.

I added Witch Week#See also (new section) links to Boarding schools in fiction and Harry Potter influences and analogues. The latter covers DWJ briefly under heading "Charmed Life"—named for the first Chrestomanci book, maybe a poor choice?.

The former target covers Witch Week specifically among now 16 "notable examples of the school story" and in the current chronologically ordered list Witch Week happens to lie in the middle of four or perhaps five listings that remarkably cover the magic-related boarding school, with Rowling the next listing after Jones. So anyone who follows that link will visit an informative spot. : [As I understand, however, the two books featuring magic-related boarding schools that have been most often or most jealously mentioned regarding J.K. Rowling's debts are two others: The Wizard of Earthsea by Le Guin (1968, not a school story) and Wizard's Hall by Yolen (1991).]

--P64 (talk) 18:42, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

2Y or 3Y?

I own the German translation of the first edition ("Copyright Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 1984 - alle Rechte für die deutschsprachige Ausgabe vorbehalten - Copyright Diana Wynne Jones 1982 ... ISBN 3-7915-1028-2"). The class is called "2 Y", so this must have been the name in the first English edition. 87.188.17.183 (talk) 18:38, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

Sources

I wasn't able to find any contemporary book reviews or literary analysis. In terms of newer sources, the 2002 book Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom appears to have at least one essay on Witch Week (based on the Google Books preview), however, the preview isn't large enough for me to pull quotes from or use it as a source. If an editor has access or tracks it down, the book appears useful for both Witch Week and other novels by Wynne Jones. Similarly, I used a preview of the 1991 journal article (the first 5 paragraphs); the full article might be useful for other editors. Sariel Xilo (talk) 18:45, 27 October 2020 (UTC)