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Elizabeth Singer Rowe : Women Writers with Dr. Runge Fall 2015
Tentative outline for amending article.
I have loosely followed the Samuel Johnson article for outline ideas since it is one of about 4,000 articles out of over 4 million that is designated "featured"!
1. Biography
Expansion with subsections that break her life down in periods if enough info. available
2. Works
Expansion with subsections with discussion of major works
One thing that needs to be corrected or noted is the discrepancies among sources regarding the number of editions of Friendship in Death
3. Critical Reception
4. List of Works by genre and year of publication
5. Sources Notes References
6. Further Reading
7. External Links if any
For the Rowe page, it seems there are many missing citations and this needs amended.
The citations in Wikipedia are inconsistent varying from page to page which is more likely the result of open editing rather than clear guidelines, but more research needs to be done on this topic. I examined the citations for the Samuel Johnson page since it is very well researched and featured. Here is where it gets murky. For example, if you click on the note in the text, it takes you to the note section at the bottom of the page. The notes in the notes sections simply match the in-text citations which are indicated with a superscript, but the notes do not contain full bibliographic information.Then, if you click on the note from the notes section, it takes you to the full bibliographic information in the references section if it's there. Why this middle step? I did notice discrepancies and omissions here. For instance, there are notes citing information in the ODNB, and The Samuel Johnson Encyclopedia, both by Dr. Pat Rogers, in the notes section, and these notes have some of the bibliographic information, but these two works are not given full bibliographic information in the "References" section. Moreover, clicking on note number 208 from within the notes section takes me to the full bibliographic information in the references section for Dr. Pat Rogers' Johnson and Boswell: The Transit of Caledonia. However, one important thing I noticed was that page numbers were given in the notes section, not the references section. If this article is an exemplar, then page numbers are a must. ISBNs are added to the references which are linked to another Wikipedia page on ISBNs. In addition, each author or source in the references section is linked to that author's separate Wikipedia page. So there is a lot of linking and cross referencing in the bibliographic information as well as the main body of the text. Linking every source used seems like overkill to me. Overall it seems that the notes section is superfluous. Why not just take the reader to the full bibliographic information when they click on the in-text citation/superscript? Why go the to notes section that has truncated info. and then have to click that to get to the references section? Is there some reason why a list of the notes, outside of the text, but not full citation is useful?
Which is the best name for the sources, references, works cited section? I see all three used on Wikipedia, and I bet others have used bibliography. Works cited seems the most specific to me. It lets the reader know that the titles were actually CITED not just CONSULTED.
Bibliography for Elizabeth Singer Rowe:
Backscheider, Paula. Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, UP. 2013. Print.
Ezell, Margaret J. M. Writing Women's Literary History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993. Print.
Hughes, Helen Sard. "Elizabeth Rowe and the Countess of Hertford." PMLA 59.3 (1944). 726-746. Web.
King, Kathryn R. "Elizabeth Singer Rowe's Tactical Use Of Print And Manuscript." Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas:
Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800. 158-181. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2002. Print.
"The Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Singer Rowe" from Poems on Several Occasions. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/rowe/life.html
"Obituary." General Evening Post. London 26 Feb - 1 March 1737 Issue 564. 17th -18th Century Burney Newspaper Collection,
Gale-Cengage. Web.
Prescott, Sarah. "Provincial Networks, Dissenting Connections, And Noble Friends: Elizabeth Singer Rowe And Female Authorship In
Early Eighteenth-Century England." Eighteenth-Century Life 1 (2001): 29. Project MUSE. Web.
Richetti, John J. Popular Fiction Before Richardson. [Electronic Resource] : Narrative Patterns, 1700-1739. n.p.: Oxford : Clarendon, 1992., 1992. University of
South Florida Libraries Catalog.
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer. Friendship in Death. Ed. Michael F. Shugrue. New York: Garland, 1972. Print. Foundations of the Novel.
Staves, Susan. A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. Print.
Wright, H. Bunker. "Matthew Prior And Elizabeth Singer." Philological Quarterly 24.(1945): 71-82. MLA International Bibliography. Web.