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 · English novelist and writer Mary Ann Evans, pen name George Eliot, in a portrait by François D’Albert Durade. Silly Novels by Lady Novelists are a genus with many species, determined by the particular quality of silliness that predominates in them—the frothy, the prosy, the pious, or the pedantic. But it is a mixture of all these—a composite order of feminine fatuity—that produces the . Eliot, George. "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists." Westminster Review, vol. LXVI, October , pp. Silly Novels by Lady Novelists. Describing the silliness and feminine fatuity of many popular books by lady novelists, George Eliot perfectly skewers the formulaic yet bestselling works that dominated her time, with their loveably flawed heroines. Essay first published for Westminster Review in /5.

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists Quotes Showing of 6 "By a peculiar thermometric adjustment, when a woman's talent is at zero, journalistic approbation is at the boiling pitch; when she attains mediocrity, it is already at no more than summer heat; and if ever she reaches excellence, critical enthusiasm drops to the freezing point.". 'Silly novels by Lady Novelists' is an essay by George Eliot, published anonymously in the Westminster Review in In the essay, Eliot criticises the majority of novels written by and for women, objecting to their 'silliness' and disregard for reality. Review: Silly Novels by Lady Novelists - George Eliot. Febru January 3, Rating - 3* I have wanted to read this little essay collection by George Eliot for a very long time, and I thought that now was as good of a time as any. It's a punchy little book in the Penguin Great Ideas series and contains half a dozen essays.

View images from this item (7) ‘Silly novels by Lady Novelists’ is an essay by George Eliot, published anonymously in the Westminster Review in In the essay, Eliot criticises the majority of novels written by and for women, objecting to their ‘silliness’ and disregard for reality. The essay can be seen as a negative manifesto: an argument for what fiction should not do. English novelist and writer Mary Ann Evans, pen name George Eliot, in a portrait by François D’Albert Durade. Silly Novels by Lady Novelists are a genus with many species, determined by the particular quality of silliness that predominates in them—the frothy, the prosy, the pious, or the pedantic. But it is a mixture of all these—a composite order of feminine fatuity—that produces the largest class of such novels, which we shall distinguish as the mind-and-millinery species. This text by George Eliot was first published as an anonymous essay in the Westminster Review in It provides a stinging critique of novels written by and for women in the nineteenth-century, objecting to their “silliness,” their penchant for cheap romance, and above all else, their disregard for reality. In many cases, it is regarded as an argument for what fiction should not do.