Silly Novels by Lady Novelists

Name: Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: George Eliot
ISBN: 9798212432535

Author: George Eliot

Narrator: Sarah Bacaller

Unabridged: 1 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thrive Audio

Published: 01/10/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Women Authors, Women

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”.

About George Eliot

George Eliot (Marian/Mary Ann Evans) was born in Warwickshire England in 1819. She went on to become one of England’s most astute nineteenth century writers. Eliot is the author of celebrated novels including Adam Bede (1859), Middlemarch (1871–1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876). She also published non-fiction essays, poems and short stories, and was a skilled translator of German-language philosophy, including works by Strauss, Feuerbach and Spinoza. Eliot’s writing is characterized by gritty realism entwined with deep empathy and keen insight into human life and ethics.

About Sarah Bacaller

Sarah Bacaller is a writer, researcher, and audiobook narrator from Melbourne, Australia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria

Siempre me llama la atención ver a un escritor criticar el trabajo de un compañero, como si se diera por hecho que él está por encima de la media o en la cúspide de los elegidos. Pero en este caso es para taparse los ojos. Entiendo que todos tengamos un criterio sobre X libro o autor, pero este ensa......more

Goodreads review by Ilenia

Il manifesto contro i libri di merda, datato 1856.......more

Goodreads review by Flybyreader

Too brutal for my taste and the fact that it was written anonymously kind of makes this article an act of cowardice. She is the 19th century version of our modern-age keyboard critics who abstain confrontation but make brutally bold comments online. Yes it is funny and she has good points but I do no......more