‘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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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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Was George Eliot trans? I dunno, probably not Was George Eliot reluctant to give up her pen name because of internalized misogyny? Almost certainly -- see her astonishingly vicious essay about "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists"https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-musings/silly-novels-lady-novelists-george-eliot-1856/ …
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I've not looked into this, but my question would be if they were outed within their lifetimes.
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At least some were. George Eliot was. And continued to publish under her pen name.
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It’s not like butch lesbians with feminine birth names are known for never, ever wanting to self-determine whether people get to keep calling them that, either, like…
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“But have you considered perhaps… a lesbian?” really is not the counterargument against ‘is it ever valid to respect a person choosing to use a neutral or masculine name as an adult and without parental involvement’ that people seem to think it is
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my understanding was that initially the sisters wanted to hide their success in particular from their brother to spare his feelings - they were more successful than him
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