Not much about the telling it slant or deviousness
I've been vaguely aware of some of the works mentioned in this article: Why is publishing suddenly obsessed with “rebel” women? but can't say they're terribly familiar to me. But they sound - maybe that article's wrong, maybe I'm misreading - but they sound to me awfully like a real-world equivalent to the misapprehension of what constitutes a 'strong woman character' in fiction.
(And they seem to be somewhat distorting the actual stories to make the originals match the template???)
Does Millicent Fawcett, e.g. get in a look in?
Is this a paradigm that would favour Emily Dickinson or Christina Rossetti?
Isn't that 'rebel' model a bit Romantic Male Myff anyway?
Suspect that factors such as deviousness, being willing to be underestimated ('tis only a novel), self-discipline, persistence, etc, as well as being part of a larger movement (women writers seeing themselves as in a tradition even if it wasn't canonical, my pet gripe about women doctors not being There Can Be Only One) were material factors, but perhaps make Moar Complicated stories. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2788771.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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