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The result was keep‎. Mojo Hand (talk) 15:07, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Novel by prolific but now obscure writer, question if everything she wrote is notable. PatGallacher (talk) 15:05, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Skynxnex (talk) 15:22, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Many contemporary reviews to the book are able to be found on newspapers.com and archive.org. Per WP:OLDBOOK notability for non-contemporary books is harder to determine, and so "possible bases for a finding of notability include, in particular, how widely the book has been cited or written about, the number of editions of the book". This has been reprinted to the modern day enough to make finding literary sources, which likely exist, a pain. PARAKANYAA (talk) 17:18, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can you show us these contemporary reviews? PatGallacher (talk) 23:10, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PatGallacher One here, quite lengthy

another here

one here

There are many, many more on Newspapers.com but I am away from the computer right now and the proxy is difficult so I cannot link them, but this theoretically suffices. This seemed to have been a popular book at the time and I'd bet there's some later coverage reflecting on it but it's difficult to find in the sea of 100 reprints. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:03, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep: I found some of those newspapers.com contemporary reviews: one from the Pall Mall Gazette, and another from the Examiner. This demonstrates notability. Toughpigs (talk) 02:06, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: The reviews above are enough for WP:NBOOK. I've added two of them to the article. ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 04:26, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - this nom is a victim of recent-ism. There is significant coverage. English language literature didn’t just fall out of a coconut tree. Bearian (talk) 02:31, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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