Talk:T. H. White

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Julie Andrews, child bride![edit]

"He hosted Julie Andrews, her then-husband Tony, and became close friends with them at this time." As Julie Andrews would have been 11 or 12 at the time, this seems highly unlikely. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 13:47, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

William is absolutely correct. Either the year is wrong, someone is glossing over the facts and shoehorned in a bit of trivia where it does not belong, or it's a completely false statement. Andrews was born in 1935, the passage is claiming that she "and her husband" visited White in 1946. Additionally, we have confirmation from the Walton and Andrews articles that they did not marry until 1959. Can someone knowledgeable fix this? 12.233.146.130 (talk) 00:45, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Politics?[edit]

This article is seriously deficient in discussing White's political ideology. Basically what he brought to Malory's medieval Arthur was a 20th century view on socialism, tyranny, war, ethnicity, etc., and particularly the four-book version of The Once & Future King was made more overtly political than the original version of the Sword in the Stone. http://g2000b.narod.ru/thwhite/Review/0_Arthur/Richard_Winston.html 24.127.187.46 (talk) 15:29, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox[edit]

I see an editor wishes to remove the infobox from this article. Clearly at least two of us find it useful. The argument for removing such boxes would apply to every single one, and this is not the place for that discussion: suffice it to say that there is a definite place for a brief summary of facts and figures, as witness the success of Google's further abstraction of Wikipedia information about famous people. As far as this infobox is concerned, it is clear, helpful and informative, and should be of value to readers not familiar with the man. That should be more than enough to ensure its retention. As for the suggestion that the info is already in the article, that should always be true, so it carries no weight. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:39, 9 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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On White's (a)sexuality [edit]

It is quite possible, in my opinion, that T. H. White was asexual, not homosexual. Kurth Sprague, in his book "T. H. White's Troubled Heart: Women in 'The Once and Future King'" cites several passages from White's journals and Sylvia Townsend Warner's biography that could support such claim, but Sprague himself never proposes such theory. The "unfulfilled homosexual" comment from Julie Andrew's autobiography is also relevant, of course.

Would this be enough evidence to warrant an edit to the page? If not, what steps should be taken to further the theory? Norrey Headfoot (talk) 19:13, 12 December 2021 (UTC) [reply]

I have since read better the Original Research policy and in states very clearly that inferences not made by the original are not allowed and therefore it would not be proper to posit on White's possible asexuality on the page until I find a reliable, attributable source defending this theory.
Please excuse my new user overeagerness. 19:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
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