Today I have added three references, all cited in the lead with details in the {reflist} and named for their authors Watson, Bennett, Chambers. I haven't seriously utilised them and they are promising. Furthermore, [ref name=chambers] is merely one excerpt among dozens that have been compiled at eNotes: "William Mayne Criticism". The "Introduction" is about five screens from Contemporary Literary Criticism (Gale, 1980); it looks promising so I have added that as one External link.
The allocation of material to the lead section and the rest of the article is inappropriate, but I haven't begun to change it, only flagged the need. --P64 (talk) 01:03, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
- Evidently I am responsible for confusing The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature and The Oxford Companion ... in this article. I do not find the Companion online now but I recall viewing both entries for William Mayne while at work here. --P64 (talk) 17:02, 14 December 2012 (UTC)