AN UNGALLANT EDITOR.

[Neville Briggs]

Stephen, I was mainly illustrating that misogyny is no explanation for that particular example.

If you think I am off the mark, then I'm afraid you have not read properly what I said.
I never said that women were not disadvantaged, I was arguing that misogyny was not the issue, social stratification and control was and as you pointed out, still is.

[Stephen Whiteside]

I thought you were arguing a comment like that could equally have been directed at a man. I don't think that's true.

[Neville Briggs]

Of course the editor's comment sarcastically drew on 19th century ideas of a woman's place in society, specially to rebuff a woman. But, I seem to remember one of the male poets I was reading relating distainful rebuffs he had copped from editors, no less savage in their way. I'll have to research that, if need be.

[warooa]

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson)

Jeannie Gunn preferred to be Mrs Aeneas Gunn because her husband was quite famous in his own right before she became known as a novelist.

Even Miles Franklis was assumed to be male for a long time.

Good point Stephen. But how do you explain English novelist Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh embracing his girly name "Evelyn"?

Marty

[Stephen Whiteside]

I don't. I guess he preferred it to Arthur. He was in a rather difficult position, wasn't he.

[Glenny Palmer]

I have yet to meet an Editor with a birthmark.............