Template:Did you know nominations/Amy Sawyer

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 23:13, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Amy Sawyer

Amy Sawyer
Amy Sawyer
  • Source: Holterhoff, Kate (2023). "Romance fiction, folk tales, and poetry: Amy Sawyer and the Arts and Crafts movement". Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists. Manchester University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.3078856 p 201: "This commission is remarkable in the graphic history of Rider Haggard. Well over one thousand unique illustrations were commissioned to accompany the approximately sixty romance fictions Haggard published during his lifetime, but of these only eighteen can be attributed to a woman artist – all by Sawyer for Heart of the World."
Created by Gamaliel (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 58 past nominations.

Gamaliel (talk) 19:49, 11 July 2024 (UTC).

  • This hook is good! I think it would be better if we pointed out how much Haggard (never heard of him!) has been illustrated. Suggest:
    • ALT1: ... that of over a thousand illustrations created for H. Rider Haggard's works during his lifetime, Amy Sawyer (pictured) was the only woman to contribute?
Hope that works for you, Gamaliel :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 06:08, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
theleekycauldron I like it, it really highlights how unusual her contribution was. I made a few minor tweaks to ALT1. Gamaliel (talk) 19:49, 13 July 2024 (UTC)


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: Yes
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: H. Rider Haggard wrote King Solomon's Mines. Article is barely long enough, but good to go. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:34, 31 July 2024 (UTC)