Bronte Sisters Power Dolls What I love about this the most is the direct correlation to women writing gay fiction. Perhaps if we all put on gay pornstaches and went back to pretending to be men.... LOL - only kidding!
Have you read the quote from Charlotte Bronte about why they initially published as Ellis, Acton and Currer Bell? It's still relevant!
"Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because—without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called 'feminine' -- we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we had noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the weapon of personality, and for their reward, a flattery, which is not true praise."
One of my favourite books, Cold Comfort Farm, has a character whose life's work is to prove his theory that Bramwell Bronte wrote all the novels and his sisters stole them and painted him as a drunk and a wastral to take all the credit themselves. Because obviously women can't really write books. :D
Although, it's somewhat unfair to Hufflepuff to say that badgers are bumbling and mediocre. They're known for their fighting prowess as much as their dim eyesight (:
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Date: 2010-05-15 08:42 am (UTC)Long live the Badger Brigade!
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Date: 2010-05-15 01:18 pm (UTC)Have you read the quote from Charlotte Bronte about why they initially published as Ellis, Acton and Currer Bell? It's still relevant!
One of my favourite books, Cold Comfort Farm, has a character whose life's work is to prove his theory that Bramwell Bronte wrote all the novels and his sisters stole them and painted him as a drunk and a wastral to take all the credit themselves. Because obviously women can't really write books. :D
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Date: 2010-05-15 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-15 08:31 pm (UTC)Although, it's somewhat unfair to Hufflepuff to say that badgers are bumbling and mediocre. They're known for their fighting prowess as much as their dim eyesight (:
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This, too, is awesome...
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Date: 2010-05-15 11:00 pm (UTC)http://www.nancypearl.com/
She also has one for teens called 'Book Crush'...
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