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'''''Silly Novels By Lady Novelists''''' is an essay written by [[George Eliot]] in 1856, in which she skewers so many [[Common Mary Sue Traits]] it's amazing — everything from her beautiful singing voice to her hordes of admirers to her astounding intellect.
'''''Silly Novels By Lady Novelists''''' is an essay written by [[George Eliot]] in 1856, in which she skewers so many [[Common Mary Sue Traits]] it's amazing — everything from her beautiful singing voice to her hordes of admirers to her astounding intellect.

While the essay seems to mostly skewers [[Mary Sue Tropes]] and several people qualify it as an early example of sporking, the actual target of the essay are both the [[Strictly Formula]] nature of the fiction written by other female authors of her era (most of their output being the XIX century predecessors of Harlequin and Mills and Boons novels) and how the very low quality of those novels [[Stop Being Stereotypical|keep alive the notion that female authors are shallow and uninspired and their books are silly romances of no transcendence]]. It also skewers how many of these authors use the [[Starving Artist]] myth to protect themselves of criticism.

A copy of the essay can be read in the Source tab above. Please blue shift it accordingly


{{tropelist|Tropes diagnosed in this essay (not all [[Mary Sue Tropes]], actually):}}
{{tropelist|Tropes diagnosed in this essay (not all [[Mary Sue Tropes]], actually):}}
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* [[Altum Videtur]]: many Silly Novelist throw it to make their heroines intelligent and instructed.
* [[Altum Videtur]]
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]
* [[Author Tract]]
* [[Author Tract]]: the full essay, but also the novels of evangelical persuasion.
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]
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* [[Historical Fiction]]
* [[Historical Fiction]]
* [[Improbable Age]]
* [[Improbable Age]]
* [[Informed Ability]]: Particularly her intellect.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Particularly the intellect of the Silly Novels heroines.
* [[Little Professor Dialog]]
* [[Little Professor Dialog]]
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]

Revision as of 02:23, 2 January 2019

"She is the ideal woman in feelings, faculties, and flounces."

Silly Novels By Lady Novelists is an essay written by George Eliot in 1856, in which she skewers so many Common Mary Sue Traits it's amazing — everything from her beautiful singing voice to her hordes of admirers to her astounding intellect.

While the essay seems to mostly skewers Mary Sue Tropes and several people qualify it as an early example of sporking, the actual target of the essay are both the Strictly Formula nature of the fiction written by other female authors of her era (most of their output being the XIX century predecessors of Harlequin and Mills and Boons novels) and how the very low quality of those novels keep alive the notion that female authors are shallow and uninspired and their books are silly romances of no transcendence. It also skewers how many of these authors use the Starving Artist myth to protect themselves of criticism.

A copy of the essay can be read in the Source tab above. Please blue shift it accordingly

Tropes diagnosed in this essay (not all Mary Sue Tropes, actually):

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