‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names - The Reclaim Her Name project, marking 25 years of the Women’s prize for fiction, will introduce titles including Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evanshttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/12/george-eliot-joins-24-female-authors-making-debuts-under-their-real-names …
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Which means if they actually wanted to, they could've called for their work to be republished under their legal name, but they didn't Again, that's why they're on this list, as opposed to someone like Charlotte Bronte who embraced being outed
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This isn't necessarily about "trans" or "not trans" If someone pretty clearly did have a choice what name to use, the respectful thing to do is to honor that choice, and deliberately ignoring that choice is always ugly and disrespectful
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Also there is strong evidence to suggest that George Sand and Vernon Lee identified as trans men
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