Talk:Two-Way Mirror (book)

A fact from Two-Way Mirror (book) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Two-Way Mirror, the first full biography of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 30 years, portrays the poet as a daring Victorian sensation and dismisses her image as an invalid?

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 16:30, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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19th century English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

... that Two-Way Mirror (2021) is the first full biography of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured) in 30 years which portrays the poet as a daring Victorian sensation and dismisses her invalid image? Source: "Fiona Sampson sets before us in this fine biography, the first since Margaret Forster’s more than 30 years ago." "The daring, wilful Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a Victorian sensation" "Fiona Sampson breathes vigour into a poet generally represented as a delicate invalid without any inner life at all"
- ALT1:... that Two-Way Mirror (2021), the first full biography of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured) in 30 years, portrays the poet as a daring Victorian sensation and dismisses her image as an invalid? Source: as above, just a slight rewording of the original hook.

Reviewed: Stinnes-Legien Agreement
Comment: Please use all the sources together to verify the hook; if you feel the hook is becoming a bit long, I'm very much open to suggestions.

Created by Ashleyyoursmile (talk). Self-nominated at 16:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

The article is new enough, long enough, and while Earwig was a little bit nervous about potential copyvios, on inspection it is just picking up on the properly attributed quotes to reviewers in the article: not a problem. The image is PD and so fine. Article is well and neutrally written and properly referenced. QPQ is done. I'm not quite sure about the hook though, there seem to me to be a couple of ambiguities which confused me the first couple of times I read it. Might I suggest a slight reword, along the following lines?
... that Two-Way Mirror (2021), the first full biography of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured) in 30 years, portrays the poet as a daring Victorian sensation and dismisses her image as an invalid?
Happy to look at other alts if you want to propose them. GirthSummit _(blether) 14:49, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Girth Summit, thank you for the review. The newly proposed hook works splendidly for me; it is compact and highlights all the points nicely. Please let me know if anything else needs to be addressed. Ashley yoursmile! 18:15, 1 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

OK Ashleyyoursmile - since you've indicated that you're happy with those suggestions, I've added it myself as an ALT1, and believe that this is now good to go. GirthSummit _(blether) 09:22, 2 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]