I got distracted last night when we were talking about Lost in Translation and the line where she says "Evelyn Waugh is a man." I was about to say, "you'd be surprised to know how few people realize George Eliot is a woman and Evelyn Waugh is a man."
George Eliot was a mid-19th century author who wrote under a male pseudonym so her works would be published and taken seriously. She wrote Silas Marner,, which was my sleeper hit of high school. I was fully prepared to despise it, but ended up loving it. I need to read more of her books, particularly Middlemarch. She's lovely, Jeremy, but she's "old." ;)
I'm telling you, darling, you should read some of those classics someday!
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Date: 2006-05-10 01:31 pm (UTC)George Eliot was a mid-19th century author who wrote under a male pseudonym so her works would be published and taken seriously. She wrote Silas Marner,, which was my sleeper hit of high school. I was fully prepared to despise it, but ended up loving it. I need to read more of her books, particularly Middlemarch. She's lovely, Jeremy, but she's "old." ;)
I'm telling you, darling, you should read some of those classics someday!