Mary Ann Evans aka George Eliot is one of my favorite, not only writers but feminist of all time. She did not care for embellishments, adjectives,emotional imagery to prove her point. She spoke and wrote to the point. With harsh criticism and relentlessness. She wrote what other female writers and activists were fooling around. I'm deeply impressed by this essay of hers. Her criticism of traditionalist and daft female writers only writing silly romance books, with no depth and preferring idealism over realism should inspire today's writers too. There are best-selling writers (both male and female), producing shit novels and series with these silly, un-complex fmc and mmc commonly known as book boyfriends or ideal men should be discouraged. I believe so. It should be limited. I read this essay and I can just imagine her expression after every punch she threw. Just the hard roll of her eyes and frantic wave of her hands.😂😂 I am familiar with classics and of you were to give me a book written in 18th or early 19th century, I would too be able to tell that it was written by a woman. Here is the reason why Evans took up a male pseudonym. When she produced her books, along with appreciation she was told that she should not project her mind to the future, socio-economic and scientific development for that feild of lit lies with male writers. And here is a line from an essay "The word of man was the world where genius minds were allowed to be flourished... and she herself craved to be there. And implored other female authors to set the same standards as men." She kept her name George Elliot to see tge shock. To open the eyes of the buffoons of that time that behind that male name there is a woman writing in male dominated lit field. Also after what happened with Mary Shelly (who she truly admired), she wanted to keep her personal life private. Love love love.
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