Literary Luminaries: Gender and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part I | The Weeklings

Title	Literary Luminaries: Gender and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part I \| The Weeklings
Author	Sam Mills
Abstract	"WHY DON’T YOU have a beard?” This was a question that a London taxi driver once posited to me. I’d just told him I was a novelist, and he eyed me with great suspicion, questioned my lack of facial hair and then concluded, with authority, “A Proper Author ought to be old, and look jaded, and have a beard.” I pointed out that Jane Austen and George Eliot had managed to pen fine prose despite having hair on their cunts rather than their chins; he merely looked confused.
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URL	http://ninglundecember.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/a-20th-century-author-i-had-never-read-before/
Date	08/09/2014
Language	English
Tags	women writings
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Literary Luminaries: Gender and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part I | The Weeklings

date: 08/09/2014
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subject: women writings
title: Literary Luminaries: Gender and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part I | The Weeklings
abstract: "WHY DON’T YOU have a beard?” This was a question that a London taxi driver once posited to me. I’d just told him I was a novelist, and he eyed me with great suspicion, questioned my lack of facial hair and then concluded, with authority, “A Proper Author ought to be old, and look jaded, and have a beard.” I pointed out that Jane Austen and George Eliot had managed to pen fine prose despite having hair on their cunts rather than their chins; he merely looked confused.
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