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  • By: George Eliot
  • Narrated by: Sarah Bacaller
  • Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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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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Wonderful essay let down by the performance

Why would anyone choose someone with a silly voice to read a book mocking silly novels by lady novelists? PLEASE let's hear this essay read by Juliet Stevenson!

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