Talk:A. S. Byatt

message: I was most upset to read this shallow and irrelevant entry on A.S.Byatt who is one of the foremost contemporary British  authors - and not only in my personal opinion!
Out of the ten or more wonderful works of fiction that she has written, only two are mentioned in passing! Out of the nine different prestigious literary prices and awards that she has received only one is mentioned. There is not a word about her masterful quartet of novels (Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, The Babel Tower,The Whistling Woman)about a Yorkshire family. Not one of her excellent short story collections (Matisse Stories, Sugar and Other  Stories, Stories of Fire and Ice, etc.) is mentioned by name. Instead most of the article is like taken from a gossip column (why she quarrels with her sister and why she does not like Harry Potter!) and is not worthy of Wikipedia. Miriam   
miriambe@savion.huji.ac.il
I agree with you entirely, and reworked the article to change its focus to her works. Please feel free to add what you can about these other works as is possible, as I have not read them. Tim Rhymeless  (Er...let's shimmy)  11:46, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article 2005

message: AS Byatt was married to Ian Byatt and now has the surname Duffy. Is this because of a second marriage? Millbanks (talk) 09:23, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: She was actually born and married (twice) as Susan Drabble. I don't know where the Antonia came from. Do a search for her birth name here: http://freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl
Ravenscroft32 (talk) 20:46, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Marriage

message: Shouldn't this part have links to their actual pages?
I agree, some of them redirect to this page, while others take you to pages about the novel. I will take out these links, and they can be put back when a page is set up. Baldwin Clere (talk) 09:48, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The link to 'Still Life (Byatt Novel)' still redirects to the author's page.  If there was a page for this novel which has now been removed, shouldn't the reference just be removed (leaving a red non-link) rather than creating a circular reference, which is very annoying?  I've notices more and more circular refs in WP, so whoever's doing this, please stop! Chrismorey (talk) 08:41, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Works/bibliography 

message: If this sarcastically worded addition is passed on fact, it should be sourced. I don't put beggar-sticking past the feisty Byatt, but cite if it did happen.
Clown in black and yellow 00:51, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: revert of 8/1

message: In a pitifully short section one of the four sentences is a long quote about her view of Christianity and Quakerism. This is so unbalanced as to be POV. 124.168.72.97 (talk) 07:31, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say this section needs expanding more than reducing. It is, as you say, pitifully small. Span (talk) 12:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balance of "Life and career" section. 

message: I know nothing about Byatt, and have no agenda.  However, I found this phrase confusing, and it definitely needs editing: "the appropriation of a family tea-set in one of the latter's novels."  It sounds as if Drabble STOLE a tea set, and it's not clear what relationship the novel has to this event.  Was it a real theft, a fictional theft?  Having followed the link, I will clarify the text thus: "Byatt has been engaged in a feud with her novelist sister Margaret Drabble, since learning that Drabble wrote about their family's tea set, a tea set which Byatt had intended to write about herself.  The two sisters have also disagreed about the appropriate portrayal of their mother. The pair seldom see each other and don't read each other's books."
This summarizes the article, I think it's clearer, and it doesn't embellish.  Note that the article does not claim that they have "famously" been engaged in a feud, nor that they have "long" been engaged in a feud.  The reference to "decades" seems clearly to indicate that Byatt found out about the tea set passage decades after it was written, but it does not suggest that the feud went on for decades.  In fact, the principle source for information about the feud was Drabble's own autobiographical writing, and she herself refers to the incident as "normal sibling rivalry," so this might well be a bit of overblown gossip based on the natural conflict between two people who write about some of the same experiences from their own diverging points of view.
::I added a bit about Byatt's view on the conflict, which, according to her, has indeed been overblown. UlanEng  —Preceding undated comment added 17:26, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Appropriation of a family tea-set" 

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message: See this report: https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&oldid=1186129429&action=compare&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2009%2Fapr%2F25%2Fas-byatt-interview There are far too many quotes in this article taken from http://theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/25/as-byatt-interview. This is potential WP:COPYVIO. I'm re-adding the tag because nothing has been done to address this. Polyamorph (talk) 05:56, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many quotes, potential copyvio