Well, George Eliot is Mary Ann Evans. She chose a male pen name, believing that using her own name would not allow her to be taken seriously as a writer.
Over on Thought Catalog, s.e. smith writes about using a gender-neutral name and how perceived gender affects writers’ reception.
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In her novel Angel, Elizabeth Taylor turns the exploration of the relationship of the artist to her imagination, her drive, her self-opinion, her ego, on its ear.Rumpus contributor extraordinaire Jason Novak shares an ambitious illustration of George Eliot’s Middlemarch over at the Paris Review Daily.
I recently bought a refrigerator magnet at Whole Foods, three and a half inches square, white letters, all lowercase, on a black background. It says “never never never give up (winston churchill).”
