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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.
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):}}
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* [[Altum Videtur]]: many Silly Novelist throw it to make their heroines intelligent and instructed.
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]
* [[Author Tract]]: the full essay, but also the novels of evangelical persuasion.
* [[The Beautiful Elite]]
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]
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* [[Historical Fiction]]
* [[Improbable Age]]
* [[Informed Ability]]: Particularly
* [[Little Professor Dialog]]
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]
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