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The claim that 'The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction' needs to be corroborated by a scholarly source, especially since the fictionality or non-fictionality of Sketches by Boz as a whole has been debated by critics. Thea Holme, for example, observes that 'Boz is no objective reporter: the facts he presents are invested with his own reaction to them, and in some cases are lifted by his imagination into tragedy or fantasy' ('Introduction' to Sketches by Boz, London: Oxford University Press, 1957, p. viii).
-- 81.101.2.134 ( talk) 16:47, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
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(with general heading of Sketches of London and signed by Boz)
(with general heading of Scenes and Characters and signed by Tibbs)
-- ChanurBe ( talk) 13:53, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I've changed "non-fictional" (which suggests the writings might be true) to "non-narrative pen-portraits" which is less misleading and (I hope) unexceptionable. For this reason, I've removed the "citation needed" tag. ( Peter Ells ( talk) 21:50, 26 January 2014 (UTC))
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Under Book Contents the link to Scotland Yard is to Scotland Yard rather than the Great Scotland Yard article. The former article refers to both a building that didn't exist in Dicken's time and as a metonym for the HQ of the Metropolitan Police. In wikisource:Sketches by Boz/Scotland Yard the text mentions nothing about police, but describes the place as a very small-tract of land, bounded on one side by the river Thames, on the other by the gardens of Northumberland House: abutting at one end on the bottom of Northumberland-street, at the other on the back of Whitehall-place. The place names seem consistent with this map
used in the Great Scotland Yard article. Should the link point to Great Scotland Yard instead? Autarch ( talk) 12:51, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
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The claim that 'The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction' needs to be corroborated by a scholarly source, especially since the fictionality or non-fictionality of Sketches by Boz as a whole has been debated by critics. Thea Holme, for example, observes that 'Boz is no objective reporter: the facts he presents are invested with his own reaction to them, and in some cases are lifted by his imagination into tragedy or fantasy' ('Introduction' to Sketches by Boz, London: Oxford University Press, 1957, p. viii).
-- 81.101.2.134 ( talk) 16:47, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
Hi there Loveless - thanks for contributing this page.
I have been into it and done four standard Wikipedia things:
All this is just tidying - you did the essential bit by writing the article. Welcome to Wikipedia!
seglea 05:24, 13 Nov 2003 (UTC)
(with general heading of Sketches of London and signed by Boz)
(with general heading of Scenes and Characters and signed by Tibbs)
-- ChanurBe ( talk) 13:53, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
I've changed "non-fictional" (which suggests the writings might be true) to "non-narrative pen-portraits" which is less misleading and (I hope) unexceptionable. For this reason, I've removed the "citation needed" tag. ( Peter Ells ( talk) 21:50, 26 January 2014 (UTC))
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Under Book Contents the link to Scotland Yard is to Scotland Yard rather than the Great Scotland Yard article. The former article refers to both a building that didn't exist in Dicken's time and as a metonym for the HQ of the Metropolitan Police. In wikisource:Sketches by Boz/Scotland Yard the text mentions nothing about police, but describes the place as a very small-tract of land, bounded on one side by the river Thames, on the other by the gardens of Northumberland House: abutting at one end on the bottom of Northumberland-street, at the other on the back of Whitehall-place. The place names seem consistent with this map
used in the Great Scotland Yard article. Should the link point to Great Scotland Yard instead? Autarch ( talk) 12:51, 8 July 2020 (UTC)