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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 17:00, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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"The biography based on Brightwell is not only dated but also carefully presented to play down Amelia Opie's radicalism during the years surrounding the French Revolution. She was indeed part of a coterie with William Godwin, Elizabeth Inchbald and Thomas Holcroft, and was present at the Treason Trials of 1794. Her novel Adeline Mowbray (1805) explores the pleasures of an unmarried partnership and contrasts them with the tyranny of marriage. She also assisted Elizabeth Fry (nee Gurney) in her prison visiting, although both of them felt they were achieving very little (MacGregor, Margaret Eliot, "Amelia Alderson Opie, Worldling and Friend", Smith College Studies in Modern Languages, 14 (1933), 3-127, p. 92). A letter of 13 Jan 1830 to Robert Southey attempts to interest him in the issue of hospital reform, although his response was lukewarm as one might expect (Wordsworth Collection, Grasmere). In later life, as a Quaker, she was active in the Anti-Slavery Movement and can be seen in Haydon's group portrait of the 1840 convention in a prodigous poke bonnet. The picture is currently hanging at the National Portrait Gallery. She conducted a vigorous correspondence all her life with various political and intellectual figures including Whewell, Cuvier, Lafayette, Brougham, Hayley, Gurney and others, as well as family. These letters are extant in over forty archival locations but have been collected into an annotated index forming part of my thesis (C. Jones, "The Life and Prose Works of Amelia Opie, 1769-1853", Open University, 2001). Clive Jones"

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I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Amelia Opie's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

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The references are not consistently formatted at present, and I want to use the Harvard system when working on the article, which I intend to raise to GA level. Please comment if you have any objection. Amitchell125 (talk) 06:06, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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What does this number in brackets correspond to? According to her biographer, Opie "was vivacious, attractive, interested in fine clothes, educated in genteel accomplishments, and had several admirers."(3). JackkBrown (talk) 22:58, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: Humanities 2 F24

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 3 September 2024 and 13 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mahimahii (article contribs).

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