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757:"Most Eminent" similarity! I've had a look, and it seems that the Vasari title is also translated as 'Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'. There are other titles as well (The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - By Allan Cunningham; Lives of the Most Eminent Foreign Statesmen - By George Payne Rainsford James, Eyre Evans Crowe). Some of those are from the Cabinet Cyclopaedia (and we should have at least a stub on that). Wasn't there some Knowledge (XXG) article that became a cause celebre at some point for pointing out loads of books that used a similar formulation in the title? I 563: 542: 387: 21: 377: 356: 231: 290: 54: 496: 471: 280: 262: 156: 75: 841:(the Peckham) and I have only seen it discussed in relation to Mary Shelley's contributions. That does not mean that some of the other volumes aren't important. However, when I put various search terms into the MLA database and JSTOR, the only things that came up were the Peckham article and the articles on Mary Shelley. I have not done exhaustive research on the 737:
Johnson's work is usually referred to as "Lives of the Poets" and was published over the course of several years, so that solves those mysteries. The years in this article are correct. I have now fixed the stub. The formulation "Lives of...." was common for centuries, so I don't think we can draw any
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should be able to remember which article that was! Anyway, I do wonder whether the "Most Eminent" formulation has more of a direct link? Obviously if no-one has made the link, we can't directly do so, but there could at least be a "see also" or a mention or a category or, failing everything else,
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This (from the lead, which is supposed to summarize the article) may be the justification for having this article at all; it's certainly a claim of notability. It would be nice to have these points actually discussed in the article text - preferably with examples.
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There is also the issue of the scope of this article. The list gives the volumes LXXXIV, XCIII, CVI, CXII, and CXIX as another five-volume set that shares the title. A simple way would be to give this article a more precise title that excluded the
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she portrays women sympathetically, explaining their political and social restrictions and arguing that women can be productive members of society if given the proper educational and social opportunities.
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A separate article would lovely, if there are the secondary sources for it. I myself don't have time to research them at the moment. I'd be happy to help refine the article once it is created, however.
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Well, I don't know how important the connection is, really. There really are hundreds, if not thousands, of books with this title. At most, these books are part of tradition of
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suggests that the section should now be cut back a bit, letting the other article take the strain. Obviously there should be some consensus reached about that.
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section into its own article and only retain a summary here. Since I haven't seen any other sources, though, I didn't see a reason to do that.
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is worth its own article. If I haven't written much on the List page by way of introduction, it is because the material here can provide it.
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I'm still cross-checking the bibliographical data. But it looks like this article could do with a fact-check. There were, it seems,
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conclusions from those title similarities, unfortunately. Thanks for taking care of the redirect housekeeping, etc.!
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I strongly agree and will do so in a fortnight if there is no disagreement. —
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I wondered about that, too. However, I could find only one article about the
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I have made a start, adding the "main article" link to the initial section.
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To all who helped produce this article: you all did a great job. Thank you.
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