Silly Novels by Lady Novelists: An Essay by George Eliot (Marian Evans) - Illustrated and Annotated

by George Eliot

Book Overview

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. Eliot divides 'silly novels by lady novelists' into several distinct categories: the mind-and-millinery species, the oracular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1953007872
• ISBN13: 9781953007872
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Voices of Today Pty Ltd
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"