"Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" is the title of an essay by Mary Anne Evans, in which she criticizes the work of female writers of her time and praises 19th-century European realism, a grander tradition she was going to dive headfirst with her subsequent literary production. Only that these works would not be signed by Mary Anne Evans but George Eliot, the male nom-de-plume that opened the gates of the literary canon.
Times have changed – or have they? Gwendolyn Díaz, a Professor of English and director of the Graduate Programme in Literature at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, has brought up a series of
