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Apologia Pro Vita Sua

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• ... that while writing his Apologia Pro Vita Sua, John Henry Newman once worked for 22 hours straight in order to have the manuscript for the printer at Newman's door the next morning?

• Source: "He worked hour after hour, up to sixteen hours in one day - once for twenty-two hours running, on May 20th, with Rivington's man at the door next morning." p. 334, first full paragraph

• ALT1: ... that after John Henry Newman wrote his Apologia Pro Vita Sua in response to an attack by Charles Kingsley, Kingsley compared Newman to a "treacherous ape" and implied that he was insane? Source: "If I am to bandy words, it must be with sane persons." and "I cannot be weak enough to put myself a second time ... into the power of one who like a treacherous ape, lifts to you meek and suppliant eyes ... " p. 343, first two full paragraphs
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• Comment: 2nd nom, so no QPQ needed

5x expanded by Smdjcl (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

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Smdjcl (talk) 17:11, 2 May 2024 (UTC).

• Approved: A very nice article, expanded within the window. Both hooks are good and check out. QPQ not required. I like ALT1 better: would suggest amending ALT0 to something like "the manuscript ready for the printer to collect..." in both hook and article, as the "at Newman's door" is a little confusing and not really idiomatic for someone coming to visit him - you could even cut it in the hook, as the interesting thing is the 22-hour day, not where he handed the manuscript over. Would also suggest reworking, in the article, Newman had been accused of secretly working to convert people to Catholicism while outwardly professing to be Anglican, and this belief persisted even after his conversion to Catholicism in 1845, as he would hardly be accused of outwardly professing Anglicanism after he had publicly converted to Catholicism. Still, none of these points should be an obstacle at this stage. Good work. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 05:52, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

@UndercoverClassicist: Thank you for your review and the kind words, and sorry for disappearing for a couple of days! Those two sentences that you pointed out were definitely the ones I had the most difficulty phrasing (my original draft of that second sentence you mentioned implied that he was still Anglican when he wrote the Apologia!). I've rephrased the sentences in the article, hopefully for the better. As for the hooks, I have no preference, so if you prefer alt1, I'm fine just going with that rather than trying to improve alt0. (Also, looking at the source again, it's not clear if it should be "manuscript" or "proof" - I just had "pamphlet" in the article. Probably better just to avoid that altogether in the hook.) Smdjcl (talk) 02:30, 7 May 2024 (UTC)