Yeah you can be inspired by George Eliot's example and apply the narrative of her life to yours all you want Just know you're crossing a line when you start making shit up about her motivations and desires to turn her into a feminist or make her match some other modern value set
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I mean you don't have to *like* what her beliefs probably were At least at one point in her life she clearly had a lot of assholish contempt for "women writers" as a class and desperately wanted to separate herself from them You are free to judge her negatively for that
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There's a big difference between judging someone for their beliefs and erasing and rewriting those beliefs The former is always far, far more respectful than the latter
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Like I don't like Bobby Jindal at all and I think the story of how he came to adopt the name "Bobby" vividly demonstrates everything I dislike about the man but I'm not going to call him Piyush all the time just to make a point I'd pretty clearly come off as the asshole
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I still think it's rather telling that they're only doing this to women who are long dead and out of copyright, and not, say, removing the name "Robert Galbraith" from The Cuckoo's Calling.
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Right, JK Rowling obviously could just drop the Galbraith pseudonym, it's well within her power, are they grilling her over why she hasn't or just respecting it
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And the fact that they couldn't tell Frederick Douglas from Martin Delany doesn't do them any favours either.pic.twitter.com/lCcSdi5xsw
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