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Contents 1 Sample Answers 1.1 Number of Columns a Week 1.2 Number of columns 1.3 Children's books 1.4 Citation 1.5 Empire Strikes Back Review

[edit] Sample Answers

There were a number of short excerpts listed under the heading "samples of her answers". I didn't think that these accurately reflected the content of Ms. Martin's column, and I was afraid that they would give the reader a mistaken impression of what it was like. So I removed them until better excerpts can be found.

It may be that the best thing to do is simply to refer the interested reader to the columns online at the Washington Post web site. For example, [1] seems to me to be a good representative example. -- Dominus 16:58, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I restored the sample answers. Although they may not be ideal, I consider them better than nothing. To give a true representation of her work, long excerpts would have to be reproduced, which would be a copyright violation. Hence, the short samples, which do convey, accurately, that Miss Martin has a sprightly tone quite unusual in her field. If you find better excerpts that do not violate copyright, by all means insert them. Thanks! NuclearWinner 00:00, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Number of Columns a Week

I think her column actually appears only twice a week in the Post - Sundays and Wednesdays - instead of three times as indicated in this article. --146.245.160.127.

Her Syndicate distributes her column three times a week [2], but it looks like the Post only carries it twice a week. I'll correct the article. --betakate 16:26, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Number of columns

Appearances in the Washington Post are now down to once a week, unfortunately

[edit] Children's books

In a used bookstore the other day I found The Tree Angel by Judith Martin. It's a children's Christmas play. I've been a fan of "Miss Manners" for a long time, but had no idea she also wrote things for children. I hope to expand this part of the article. Jonathunder 18:10, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

In fact, the "Judith Martin" who authored that children's book is not the same person who authored the "Miss Manners" books, as Martin emphatically stated at a lecture this afternoon at the National Gallery of Art. While it is true that amazon.com has conflated the two people into one, that in no way proves anything other than that computers and people responsible for data on millions of books make mistakes. (Which explains why this part of the article has never been expanded, I'd guess.)

I note per this page that the book "The Tree Angel" dates back to 1962, and the subsequent play by the same author to 1969. Given the career pattern of the person who is the subject of the Wikipedia article, it seems fairly certain that the author of the play and the same titled children's book is not the same person as "Miss Manners". -- John Broughton (♫♫) 02:55, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation

"Her columns, noted for their wit, humor, depth of analysis, and broad knowledge of history and customs and their applications to the problems of today". Noted by who, exactly? 131.111.200.200

[edit] Empire Strikes Back Review

After reading her review on The Empire Strikes Back... I despise this woman for her complete ignorance and stupidity. I hope she doesn't review all movies, books and/or w/e like she did to ESB. --The Wolfe22 (talk) 14:33, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

• Indeed. I totally agree. She got to be really dumb to write like that. --201.76.143.37 (talk) 17:18, 9 February 2008 (UTC)