‘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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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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But the fact that she picked her name for reasons that we'd probably judge as ignoble doesn't mean that it wasn't her choice and doesn't give you the right to trample that choice
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