User talk:Ilovevinyl

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Again, welcome! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:07, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Eileen Sharp

Thanks for your message. Are these things online? If so, we could add a link to them. BTW, do you have any published obituaries or newspaper reviews for Eileen Sharp? All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:07, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Dear Jack and SSilvers thank you for taking an interest in her. (Hopefully this thread comes up on the right page.) In answer to your question above yes there are reviews in The Sphere (entitled 'The Strange Life of Gauguin'), October 10 1925, The Tatler, December 1925 p. 415 and The Tatler, April 14 1926 p. 68. I do have copies which I uncovered in the V&A where there is a large collection of cuttings. There is a particularly lovely postcard portrait where she looks so of the period, held online at math.boisestate.edu in the 'Programme' section from the Souvenir of the 1924 D'Oyly Carte Season. The Fairy Queen portrait is not online as far as I know but I do have copy scanned in if that is any help. Ilovevinyl (talk) 22:32, 16 November 2015 (UTC) Ilovevinyl (talk) 22:32, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi. You can e-mail us any news or magazine articles that you have scanned by clicking on the "Email this user" link at the left side of our user pages: User:Ssilvers and User:Jack1956. Then we can use them. The portrait you mean is the Mad Margaret one here, right? Unfortunately, a 1924 image might still be under copyright, so it might be difficult for us to use it on Wikipedia, which has very strict copyright policies. But wait a few more years, and it should drop out of copyright. Unless the Fairy Queen portrait is from 1922 or before, or unless you can prove that you own the copyright, I don't think we can use it. BTW, with whom did she play the Fairy Queen? Do you mean, rather, Iolanthe, which was her role with D'Oyly Carte? Also, please take a look at the article and let us know if we missed mentioning any roles that she played. -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:44, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

I have the images and cuttings ready but can't seem find the email link you refer to above. Should I attempt to upload them, or could you perhaps send me an email which I could reply to? I have also tried to send Jack1956 a thank you message but his page keeps crashing, no doubt it is my computer's fault, but just wanted him to know how much I appreciate his help creating the page. Very many thanks -- Ilovevinyl (talk) 19:55, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Try this link. -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:19, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you for the barnstar - that's very kind of you. It was a pleasure to be able to help with it. Jack1956 (talk) 21:11, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi Daisy, I have received all your emails, but other than looking thorough them I've been so busy over the last couple of days I've not had time to do anything with them. I hope to put that right over the weekend, but I don't know if we'll be able to use all of them as it will make the article rather image heavy. Thanks. Jack1956 (talk) 18:43, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

I have not received them. Jack, would you please forward the key info to me? -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:30, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you both! Ssilvers for some reason yours took three days to bounce back, I do apologise. Re. making the article too image heavy, very happy to defer to your judgement so over to you. Just grateful to have your help with this. If we do include any of the Nerman images just a reminder to link the Mary Evans Picture Library who've given their permission (and Einar Nerman which isn't a technical requirement but in the spirit of courtesy). If we want to use the 'electrifying' Mad Margaret from the National Portrait Gallery we can do this, as long as we follow the advice outlined in Matthew's email.Ilovevinyl (talk) 23:06, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

User:Ilovevinyl, thanks for your message. I know that Jack is watching this page, as am I, so all discussion can go here, to keep it together. Jack added another one of the photos, but that's probably all the room we have for images. I added a citation to the engagement clipping. Did you find any obituaries, or interviews about her post-D'Oyly Carte career? Also, do you have any published information about her childhood and early life? All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:52, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

I don't have anything on her childhood though we think she had lost her mother, father and brother by the time she went to the Royal College aged 18, and the Alumni office at the Royal College of Music has confirmed her dates. 'I have looked in our archives and I am delighted to tell you that Eileen Sharp did, indeed, study Singing and Opera at the Royal College of Music between 6 January 1919 and 9 December 1921, as the recipient of an Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Scholarship. Eileen’s home address at the time is given as Brendon, Newick, Sussex and the records also state that her father was already deceased by the time she enrolled here.' Royal College of Music Alumni Office, 24 November 2015 16.05. My father remembers she also trained at LAMDA but their office hasn't yet confirmed this. Ilovevinyl (talk) 16:23, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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