A fact from Charlotte Pistorius appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 December 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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These comments are also copied to the author's talk page.) I think this article really needs more information on her poetry if that's her primary claim to notability. Has a significant amount of it been published? If so can a citation be added to a book containing it? If nothing of her work has been published, is she genuinely notable as an author? In which case the article might need to be retooled to focus on her notability in some other area. (The 1888 ADB suggests that at that time, none of her writing had been published.) I'm a bit concerned about this article-while it's a translation of the German-language Wikipedia article they seem to have lower quality standards than us, and the few sources in that article weren't all copied over. Blythwood (talk) 10:17, 15 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I have made some edits to the article, to give a bit more context and more emphasis on her letters, which have been published. I find it interesting that a woman living in a small country town in early 19th century Germany, who was largely self-educated, the wife and daughter of not particularly notable pastors, corresponded with influential intellectuals such as Ernst Moritz Arndt and Friedrich Schleiermacher - and that some of the letters she exchanged with them have appeared in editions of their correspondence published certainly in the 20th and 21st centuries (perhaps also the 19th?), so that she has become known as a letter-writer. Other women of that time, in various countries, have become known for their letters, but certainly not every pastor's wife or daughter corresponded with a theologian or historian, nor had their letters published. RebeccaGreen (talk) 16:56, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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