Template:Did you know nominations/Laurence Sterne's correspondence with Elizabeth Draper

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle talk 12:22, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Laurence Sterne's correspondence with Elizabeth Draper

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Caricature of Laurence Sterne, mocking his relationship with Elizabeth Draper

• ... that Laurence Sterne’s journal of love letters reverses the found manuscript trope by claiming that his real diary is fictional? Source: Cash p. 285: "More puzzling is his reversal of a literary tradition: instead of passing of a fictional diary as a real one, Sterne seemed to be passing off a real diary as fiction. Obviously, it was not a serious attempt at disguise"
  • ALT1: ... that Laurence Sterne’s love letters to a married woman inspired two books of fake replies? Source: Oates p. 155, https://www.jstor.org/stable/41154354
  • ALT2: ... that Laurence Sterne's love letters to a married woman inspired his last novel's depiction of sexual desire as a force for moral improvement? Source: Parnell xxxii-xxxiii, https://archive.org/details/sentimentaljourn0000ster_s2k5/page/n33/mode/2up
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gordon House (Silverton, Oregon)

5x expanded by LEvalyn (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

~ L 🌸 (talk) 02:55, 2 April 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Found no problems with this nomination. I'd say ALT0 is the most interesting of the hooks. Lazman321 (talk) 16:09, 24 April 2025 (UTC)