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Revision as of 17:06, 9 January 2014
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"She is the ideal woman in feelings, faculties, and flounces." |
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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.
Tropes diagnosed in this essay (not all Mary Sue Tropes, actually):
- Altum Videtur
- Aristocrats Are Evil
- Author Tract
- The Beautiful Elite
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished
- Blue Blood
- Curse
- Dances and Balls
- Deathbed Confession
- Death of the Hypotenuse
- Designated Hero
- Did Not Do the Research
- Distressed Dude
- Duel to The Death
- Easy Evangelism
- Everything's Sparkly With Jewelry
- Genius Book Club
- Gilded Cage
- Historical Fiction
- Improbable Age
- Informed Ability: Particularly her intellect.
- Little Professor Dialog
- Long-Lost Relative
- Love Dodecahedron
- Made a Slave
- Mary Sue
- Canon Sue: All the works are technically original fiction.
- Melodrama
- Moral Myopia
- Nice Guy: The designated hero of the Evangelical white neck-cloth species.
- Omniglot
- Owl Be Damned
- Parental Marriage Veto
- Period Piece
- Pimped-Out Dress
- Purple Prose
- Rags to Royalty
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
- Shallow Love Interest
- Virgin Power
- Wrong Guy First