This is a tremendously presumptuous thing to do, especially since many of these authors obviously had the opportunity to do this in their lifetime and never did (George Eliot kept writing as George Eliot long after she was outed, Middlemarch was published 14 years later)https://twitter.com/Fem_Scribblers/status/1293488874036047872 …
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They could have gone with the format of “given name / nom de plume”.....which would alert the reader to the issue, and perhaps spur some thought. But I’m with you. I don’t like the suggestion that we are “liberating” these poor, benighted women posthumously.
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