At least two William Barry's

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1rocketjk
Jan 31, 2008, 3:51 pm

Greetings! I've just added a book called The Two Standards by William Barry to my library. The book was published in 1899. In doing a little research, I found this biographical clip (http://www.pgil-eirdata.org/html/pgil_datasets/authors/b/Barry,W/life.htm):

Life
1849-1930 William Francis Barry; later Right Rev. Mgr.; b. London, of Irish parents, ed. Oscott Jesuit School and Gregorian Univ., Rome; entered priesthood in 1873; Rector of St. Peter’s, Leamington; Prof. of Theol. at Olton; as ‘Canon Barry’ he wrote articles for the Dublin Review and the Contemporary; his work on the medieval papacy was censured by his Catholic superiors; his novels include The New Antigone (1887), a pro-Catholic novel of ideas in the form of a witty attack on free love and free-thinking, socialism and the New Woman, was reprinted 3 times in the year, and ran to 7 edns. by 1906; The Two Standards (1898), more overtly Catholic, with an artist hero based on Wagner, satirising high finance; Arden Massiter (1900) its hero a young English socialist involved in Italian revolutionary politics; The Wizard’s Knot (1900), is dedicated to Douglas Hyde and Standish H. O’Grady and finds humour in the Celtic revival; The Place of Dreams (1893) contains ghost-stories. IF SUTH

Works
The New Antigone (London: Macmillan 1887); The Two Standards (1898); Arden Massiter (1900); The Wizard’s Knot (1900, Do. 2nd edn. T. Fisher Unwin: London 1901), pp. viii. 376; The Place of Dreams (CTS 1893).

This would tell me that there are at least two different authors, and maybe three, represented by the books currently listed on the William Barry author page (http://www.librarything.com/author/barrywilliam).

I'm guessing that: Medicines for Children, A history of Framingham, Massachusetts and The Practice of Spiritual Direction are not the William Barry who wrote the other works on that page.

I couldn't figure out how to separate these books out from each other. Someone with more knowledge on these issues may wish to have a peek. Thanks! Jerry

2nperrin
Jan 31, 2008, 3:57 pm

Different authors with the same name cannot (yet) be separated from each other. What you can do, however, is add a disambiguation notice to the author page explaining a condensed version of what you have here.

3rocketjk
Jan 31, 2008, 4:10 pm

Thanks! Will do!