Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
- Author George Eliot
- Narrator Sarah Bacaller
- Run Time 1 hour and 10 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history and criticism, Society and Social Sciences.
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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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