Bøger af George Eliot

In this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review (1856), George Eliot examines the state of women's fiction in her time. She lamentingly argues that absurd and banal novels, written by well-to-do women of her time, do great disservice for the overall appreciation of women's intellectual capacities within society.Eliot divides "silly novels by lady novelists" into several distinct categories: the mind-and-millinery species, the oracular type and the white-neck-cloth variety. She writes with characteristic sharp wit and insightful intellect in this scathing (but not unfeeling) feminist critique of "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists".

Spanning a period of 10 to 15 years, the story follows Maggie's relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romance with Philip Wakem (a sensitive and intellectual friend) and with Stephen Guest (a vivacious young socialite).

'We must lay upon her grave whatever we have it in our power to bestow of laurel and rose, ' Virginia Woolf wrote of George Eliot in 1919, appraising the author's work.