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Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
- Author
- George Eliot
- Narrator
- Sarah Bacaller
- Publisher
- Thrive Audio
- Publish Date
- 10 January 2023
- Run Time
- 1 hour 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, Feminism and feminist theory, Literature: history and criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
What to expect
In this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review (1856), George Eliot examines the state of women’s fiction in her time. She lamentingly argues that absurd and banal novels, written by well-to-do women of her time, do great disservice for the overall appreciation of women’s intellectual capacities within society.
Eliot divides “silly novels by lady novelists” into several distinct categories: the mind-and-millinery species, the oracular type and the white-neck-cloth variety. She writes with characteristic sharp wit and insightful intellect in this scathing (but not unfeeling) feminist critique of “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”.
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- Author
- George Eliot
- Narrator
- Sarah Bacaller
- Duration
- 1 hour 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 January 2023
- ISBN
- 9798212432535
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Thrive Audio
- Genre
- Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, Literature: history and criticism, Feminism and feminist theory, Literature: history and criticism, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Synopsis
In this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review (1856), George Eliot examines the state of women’s fiction in her time. She lamentingly argues that absurd and banal novels, written by well-to-do women of her time, do great disservice for the overall appreciation of women’s intellectual capacities within society.Eliot divides “silly novels by lady novelists” into several distinct categories: the mind-and-millinery species, the oracular type and the white-neck-cloth variety. She writes with characteristic sharp wit and insightful intellect in this scathing (but not unfeeling) feminist critique of “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists”.
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