Template:Did you know nominations/Honora Sneyd
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 20:08, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
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Honora Sneyd
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- ... that in the 1770s Honora Sneyd (pictured) measured the reaction of children to new knowledge scientifically?
- ALT1: ... that in 1771 Thomas Day sent a proposal letter to Honora Sneyd (pictured) outlining her duties as his wife, and she replied the next morning with a rejection letter outlining the rights of women, and stressing equality in marriage?
- Reviewed: QPQ = Lillian Leach
Created by Michael Goodyear (talk). Nominated by Victuallers (talk) at 16:12, 19 March 2015 (UTC).
- It is true that Honora Sneyd is credited with first stating that childhood education should be evidence based from scientific experiments, and started to collect and collate data on the reaction of children to new knowledge.
- However equally impressive to me was that when Thomas Day sent her a proposal letter, the next day she retorted with a rejection letter outlining remarkably modern concepts of the rights of women and of equality within marriage.--Michael Goodyear (talk) 17:23, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Michael Goodyear: I agree - have a go Victuallers (talk) 15:59, 20 March 2015 (UTC) - I reworded it Victuallers (talk) 17:20, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
- (alt2) ... that Honora Sneyd's (pictured) rejection of Thomas Day's marriage proposal cited the rights of women including equality in marriage?
- I was going to review this but didn't get far since the very first source I tried to check was offline. If it helps: article is new enough and long enough and has been expanded 5x, is neutral, is cited, and certainly looks impressive. --Rosekelleher (talk) 19:08, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Back again. The source for the original hook is online and checks out. At first I liked ALT1 best, but on second thought, I see that Honora's name comes first in ALT2, which is more fitting for Women's History Month. Also, with ALT1, I have to assume that Day's "arguments in favour of the rights of men", mentioned in the article, included a list of a wife's duties; whereas everything that's stated in ALT2 is explicitly stated in the article. I did not do an exhaustive check for copyright violations, but ran the Dup Detector on three different sources and didn't find anything amiss. Author's contribution history suggests I can safely leave it at that. --Rosekelleher (talk) 20:42, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
