Evelyn Waugh: What a Gal!

Karen:  Whoever wrote or edited Time magazine’s list of notable female writers revealed their lack of depth in literary studies. Perhaps they majored in “Feminist Studies” and couldn’t find the time to discover that Evelyn Waugh was a male. Had they put together a list of “notable male writers,” would they have listed George Eliot, A.M. Barnard, Isak Dinesen, George Sand, and the very successful Bell brothers, among the men authors?  If so, someone would have had to inform them that these prolific “guys” were all women who wrote using male pen-names. Their actual names were Mary Ann Evans, Louisa May Alcott (you may remember “his” writings), Karen Blixen, and Amantine Lucile Aurora Dupin.  The renowned “Bell brothers” wrote as the Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne).

In the end, such gender differences really don’t matter anyway.  The feminist league long ago advised us that the great works in literature and the sciences were done by women, whose creative works were stolen from them by powerful men who controlled the legal system!

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3:23 pm on February 28, 2016