Talk:Nell Gwyn

message: Great work on this article so far. It's stable, well referenced, and should definately go through a peer review to help identify those details that will upgrade the article to "A". Nightngle 17:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer Review

message: Nell Gwyn is most commonly said to have been born in Hereford (and sometimes Covent Garden). Emphasis in the article incorrectly implies Covent Garden as the most likely. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by  84.67.37.104 (talk • contribs) .
:Hopefully it's pretty equivocal now about her place of birth. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 02:12, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Biography

message: So all the plays back then have these XXX, or The YYY names. Just curious: is there any deeper answer to the question "why did they?" than "they just did"? —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 21:30, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Different productions sometimes gave the same (basic) play different titles. When they were published, both titles were used. (Same idea is still around today: a movie is often released under different titles in different countries). After a while, it became a tradition to have the "or" titles, the second of which is, you'll note, generally more descriptive of the action (e.g. Kyd's A Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronymo's Mad Again)... Titles as printed often differed from those used at the time of production: no one ever said "Hey, you want to go down to the Globe tonight to catch The most excellent Historie of the Merchant o Venice with the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the Iewef towards the sayd Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh: and the obtaying of Portia by the choyse of three chests As it hath beene diuers times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants." (I wonder how many such play's titles would have to be listed as spoilers if given in Wikipedia! - Nunh-huh 14:27, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Two Names, or The Dumb Question'' 

message: Following this piece of text I removed from the article
Madam Gwyn was born within the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and is thought to have lived most of her life in the city. She is believed by most Gwyn biographers to have been low-born; Beauclerk calls this conjecture, based solely on what is known of her later life.
This simply cannot be proven, as 3 cities have claimed to be her birth place, as said 2 sentences on.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.23.92.58 (talk) 13:43, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a misunderstanding, which I have reverted. If you read the sentence before the statement you removed, you'll see that "Madam Gwyn" refers to Nell Gwyn's mother, not to Nell Gwyn herself. Bishonen | talk 00:13, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace 

message: "Nell is also famous for another remark made to her coachman, who was fighting with another man who had called her a whore. She broke up the fight, saying, "I am a whore. Find something else to fight about."[citation needed]
Thomas C. Smith "Japan's Aristocratic Revolution" in Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization 1750-1920 (U of Cal Press 1988 145-146
"...in Fielding's story of Nell Gwyenn. Stepping on day from a house where she had made a short visit, the famous actress saw a great mob assemnled and her footman all bloody and dirty. The fellow, being asked by his mistress what had happened, answered, "I have been fighting, madam, with an impudent rascal who called your ladyship a whore." "You blockhead," replied Mrs. Gwyenn, at this rate you must fight every day of your life; why, you fool, all the world knows it." "Do they?" the fellow said in a muttering voice; "They shan't call me a whore's footman for all that."
I believe this is from The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding.
137.81.40.148 (talk) 03:09, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy 

message: This entire section needs streamlining and excision of phrases such as 'that is highly unlikely to be true', which do not bear sources. References made in vague terms (also unsourced) to 'a manuscript of [X year]', etc, which seems less than strictly encyclopaedic.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.113.171 (talk) 20:26, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Early Life section

message: Substituted at 01:02, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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The moniker "protestant whore" is also used for the main character of the 1724 novel, Roxana 
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-- 70.52.11.217 (talk) 03:45, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: - thanks for the suggestion, especially the Defoe section, which avoids people ending in a cul-de-sac - Arjayay (talk) 13:06, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
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message: Why is she described as a "prolific celebrity" in the introduction? She only had two boys when many (particularly married) women mothered larger families than this - look eg at King Charles' niece the future Queen Anne. Nor was she a writer, painter or sculptress, so would not be prolific in the creative department (unless you count acting as creative).Cloptonson (talk) 05:47, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Having just come to the article, I also immediately questioned the use of this term. Since nobody has come forward to justify its use, I've deleted it. --Blurryman (talk) 17:57, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: "prolific"!?

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