Template:RQ:Woolf Common Reader

1925 April, Virginia Woolf, “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Common Reader, 2nd edition, London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, [], published November 1925, →OCLC:

Usage edit

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote from Virginia Woolf's work The Common Reader (First Series, 2nd edition, 1925; and Second Series, 1948 version); the 1st editions of the series (First Series, Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925; →OCLC; Second Series, Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932; →OCLC) are not currently available online. The template can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the HathiTrust Digital Library and the Internet Archive:

Parameters edit

The template takes the following parameters:

  • |series=mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the Second Series, specify |series=2.
  • |1= or |chapter=mandatory: the name of the chapter quoted from. If quoting from a title indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:
Parameter value Result
First Series
Archbishop Thomson Outlines. IV. Archbishop Thomson.
Dr. Bentley Outlines. II. Dr. Bentley.
Lady Dorothy Nevill Outlines. III. Lady Dorothy Nevill.
Laetitia Pilkington Lives of the Obscure. II. Laetitia Pilkington.
Miss Mitford Outlines. I. Miss Mitford.
Taylors and Edgeworths Lives of the Obscure. I. Taylors and Edgeworths.
Second Series
Beau Brummel Four Figures. II. Beau Brummel.
Cowper and Lady Austen Four Figures. I. Cowper and Lady Austen.
Dorothy Wordsworth Four Figures. IV. Dorothy Wordsworth.
James Woodforde Two Parsons. I. James Woodforde.
John Skinner Two Parsons. II. John Skinner.
Mary Wollstonecraft Four Figures. III. Mary Wollstonecraft.
  • |2= or |page=, or |pages=mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:
    • Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
    • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.
  • |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
  • |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
  • |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not prov

Examples edit

  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Woolf Common Reader|chapter=Notes on an Elizabethan Play|page=77|passage=To trace the trail of feelings which such crises and calamities might be expected to breed in a woman of ordinary sensibility might have filled volumes. A dramatist, of course, has no volumes to fill. He is forced to contract. Even so, he can '''illumine'''; he can reveal enough for us to guess the rest.}}; or
    • {{RQ:Woolf Common Reader|Notes on an Elizabethan Play|77|To trace the trail of feelings which such crises and calamities might be expected to breed in a woman of ordinary sensibility might have filled volumes. A dramatist, of course, has no volumes to fill. He is forced to contract. Even so, he can '''illumine'''; he can reveal enough for us to guess the rest.}}
  • Result:
    • 1925 April, Virginia Woolf, “Notes on an Elizabethan Play”, in The Common Reader, 2nd edition, London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, [], published November 1925, →OCLC, page 77:
      To trace the trail of feelings which such crises and calamities might be expected to breed in a woman of ordinary sensibility might have filled volumes. A dramatist, of course, has no volumes to fill. He is forced to contract. Even so, he can illumine; he can reveal enough for us to guess the rest.