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I am expanding this article to a full biography and assessment. This should take a week or so. Please feel free to contribute, or raise suggestions for discussion on this talkpage. Brianboulton ( talk) 19:08, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Apropos comments on peer review page, some info about Reed's influence on Wodehouse:
Wodehouse wrote:
Letter from Wodehouse to Usborne, quoted in:
Usborne himself wrote:
A less positive angle on Reed's legacy is in R.D.B. French's study of Wodehouse. Noting that Wodehouse wrote not for the B.O.P. but for the new paper, The Captain, French says of the paper:
Given that your article may be read by Americans of a sensitive disposition, I hesitate to add that French tells us that the editor of the new paper appeared in caricature each week as "The Old Fag", a venerable person writing at the dictation of a boy in Etons. I don't know that French's description of the B.O.P. quite squares with that given in your article. One wonders if French actually read the B.O.P. or was projecting images of Eric etc on it.
Finally, and with due concern for your blood-pressure, I send you Benny Green. It is a long excerpt, and probably too long to be reproduced here without incurring the wrath of copyright purists. It can instead temporarily be seen here The Wodehouse reference comes late in this passage. (They that endure to the end, the same shall be saved.) It is from:
Tim riley ( talk) 07:25, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
As promised, here are my comments, sorry for the delay, but I've been in California for the past three weeks and fairly busy with stuff, plus an article I am trying to finish and a crisis at FAC:
Hopefully the article will be deservedly promoted shortly.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 21:26, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the helpful input. Brianboulton ( talk) 23:51, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
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According to Historic England, the O'Shea cross in Abney Park Cemetery is actually a memorial to Andrew Holmes Reed (1842-92), not Talbot Baines Reed. Kelly hi! 11:27, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Brianboulton has suggested we throw this article into the current pile of potential TFA reruns (currently being developed at User:Dank/Sandbox/2). Any objections? Any cleanup needed? - Dank ( push to talk) 17:56, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
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I am expanding this article to a full biography and assessment. This should take a week or so. Please feel free to contribute, or raise suggestions for discussion on this talkpage. Brianboulton ( talk) 19:08, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
Apropos comments on peer review page, some info about Reed's influence on Wodehouse:
Wodehouse wrote:
Letter from Wodehouse to Usborne, quoted in:
Usborne himself wrote:
A less positive angle on Reed's legacy is in R.D.B. French's study of Wodehouse. Noting that Wodehouse wrote not for the B.O.P. but for the new paper, The Captain, French says of the paper:
Given that your article may be read by Americans of a sensitive disposition, I hesitate to add that French tells us that the editor of the new paper appeared in caricature each week as "The Old Fag", a venerable person writing at the dictation of a boy in Etons. I don't know that French's description of the B.O.P. quite squares with that given in your article. One wonders if French actually read the B.O.P. or was projecting images of Eric etc on it.
Finally, and with due concern for your blood-pressure, I send you Benny Green. It is a long excerpt, and probably too long to be reproduced here without incurring the wrath of copyright purists. It can instead temporarily be seen here The Wodehouse reference comes late in this passage. (They that endure to the end, the same shall be saved.) It is from:
Tim riley ( talk) 07:25, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
As promised, here are my comments, sorry for the delay, but I've been in California for the past three weeks and fairly busy with stuff, plus an article I am trying to finish and a crisis at FAC:
Hopefully the article will be deservedly promoted shortly.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 21:26, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the helpful input. Brianboulton ( talk) 23:51, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
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Cheers.— cyberbot II Talk to my owner:Online 07:04, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
According to Historic England, the O'Shea cross in Abney Park Cemetery is actually a memorial to Andrew Holmes Reed (1842-92), not Talbot Baines Reed. Kelly hi! 11:27, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
Brianboulton has suggested we throw this article into the current pile of potential TFA reruns (currently being developed at User:Dank/Sandbox/2). Any objections? Any cleanup needed? - Dank ( push to talk) 17:56, 7 September 2017 (UTC)