The article was promoted 18:32, 22 February 2007.
Self-nomination. I replaced the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica entry with this more up-to-date and comprehensive page. I believe that it fairly and accurately covers Barbauld, a major Romantic figure, with all of the necessary citations. The article has gone through a mini-peer review from a wikipedia peer reviewer and a larger peer review from the biography wikipedians. One question I have is: to reference or not to reference in the lead? I originally did not but was advised in a peer review to do so. I have since seen comments on other pages recommending a deletion of references from the lead. Please advise. Awadewit 07:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply
Moreover, the intellectual ferment that Barbauld was an important part of—particularly at the dissenting academies—had, by the end of the nineteenth century, come to be associated with the “philistine” middle class, as Matthew Arnold would so eloquently and damningly phrase it.[30] Not only was she attacked as a dissenter, she was also attacked as part of the middle-class. The emerging eighteenth-century middle class that had advocated for the reform of education of England and other noble causes such as the abolition of slavery had, in many ways, come to be seen as responsible for the greatest abuses of the industrial age.
The article was promoted 18:32, 22 February 2007.
Self-nomination. I replaced the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica entry with this more up-to-date and comprehensive page. I believe that it fairly and accurately covers Barbauld, a major Romantic figure, with all of the necessary citations. The article has gone through a mini-peer review from a wikipedia peer reviewer and a larger peer review from the biography wikipedians. One question I have is: to reference or not to reference in the lead? I originally did not but was advised in a peer review to do so. I have since seen comments on other pages recommending a deletion of references from the lead. Please advise. Awadewit 07:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC) reply
Moreover, the intellectual ferment that Barbauld was an important part of—particularly at the dissenting academies—had, by the end of the nineteenth century, come to be associated with the “philistine” middle class, as Matthew Arnold would so eloquently and damningly phrase it.[30] Not only was she attacked as a dissenter, she was also attacked as part of the middle-class. The emerging eighteenth-century middle class that had advocated for the reform of education of England and other noble causes such as the abolition of slavery had, in many ways, come to be seen as responsible for the greatest abuses of the industrial age.