Mary Ann Evans, in her day, felt very much the same as Jennifer Weiner about the low esteem in which critics and reviewers held the multitude of women novelists then writing. In hopes of being taken seriously, she changed her name to George Eliot. Perhaps Ms. Weiner, just as an experiment to test her theories, should publish her next novel under a masculine nom de plume.
Mary Ann Evans, in her day, felt very much the same as Jennifer Weiner about the low esteem in which critics and reviewers held the multitude of women novelists then writing. In hopes of being taken seriously, she changed her name to George Eliot. Perhaps Ms. Weiner, just as an experiment to test her theories, should publish her next novel under a masculine nom de plume.