Talk:J. I. M. Stewart

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[edit] Merger Proposal Discussion

• Merge - the Michael Innes page is basically just a bibliography - any biographical details should be here - if a page were required for the Inspector Appleby Series, with references back to J. I. M. Stewart (and of course a redirect from Michael Innes, which I guess would be an automatic consequence of the merger?) that would be the best and tiediest way to proceed, to my mind...Abbeybufo (talk • contribs) 09:46, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Keep Michael Innes and J.I.M. Stewart separate

To my mind, it makes sense to keep the man Stewart separate to the writer Innes. Stewart made a clear decision during his lifetime to create the MICHAEL INNES pseudonym to house his deteective writing. The writing done under his own name was quite different, and my sense is that he enjoyed the virtual alter ego, partly as a way of compartmentalising his mind/life, as between his day job as a don and perhaps his true calling as a fiction writer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cleggcom (talk • contribs) 14:21, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

I agree with the above; even though Stewart made no attempt to hide his true identity (Penguin editions name him as Innes from the fifties onwards) the books he published in his real name are distinct from the detective work and this is probably the way he wanted it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mpone (talk • contribs) 15:39, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge. There is very little content under Michael Innes that isn't duplicated at J. I. M. Stewart. Compare that other Oxford don Charles Dodgson, who is redirected to Lewis Carroll. I incline to a merger. Omassey (talk) 22:41, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Merge: Stewart and Innes are the same person. Their creative work was the product of the same physical entity, the same mind. The two names merely appeared on different portions of his literary output. Ruth Rendell and Barbara Vine are, quite rightly, treated as the same person, as indeed is Baroness Rendell of Babergh, yet another aspect of her personality.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 11:37, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Good point. Look, also, at Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens, appearing as one entry. 71.175.28.121 (talk) 17:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Malvern College

I know a man of about fifty who claims that Stewart was his English teach at Malvern College, which would have been in about the 1970s. Did he do this in his retirement?--Oxonian2006 (talk) 11:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)