History Literature / SillyNovelsByLadyNovelists

--> There are few women, we suppose, who have not seen something of children under five years of age, yet in “Compensation,” a recent novel of the mind-and-millinery species, which calls itself a “story of real life,” we have a child of four and a half years old talking in this Ossianic fashion:

* BoldInflation: Occurs a lot in {{Author Tract}}s in the form of italics and lowercase notes, which invariably fails to actually clarify the meaning of these tracts.
* CharacterFilibuster: When discussing a novel called ''Literature/LauraGay''.

* BoldInflation: Occurs a lot in AuthorTracts in the form of italics and lowercase notes, which invariably fails to actually clarify the meaning of these tracts.

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%% * AuthorTract
%% * TheBeautifulElite

%% * BigFancyHouse
%% * BlueBlood
%% * BoldInflation

%% * {{Curse}}

%% * DeathOfTheHypotenuse
%% * DesignatedHero [[invoked]]
%% * DistressedDude

%% * EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry
%% * GeniusBookClub
%% * GildedCage
%% * HistoricalFiction

%% * ImprobableAge
* InformedAbility: Particularly her intellect. Eliot does praise one author for realizing this and keeping it off-screen, which makes the dialog much more readable than that of authors who try to write their heroines as smarter than themselves.
%% * LittleProfessorDialog
%% * LongLostRelative

%% * LoveDodecahedron
%% * MadeASlave

%% * {{Melodrama}}
%% * MoralMyopia

%% * ParentalMarriageVeto
%% * PeriodPiece
%% * PimpedOutDress
%% * PurpleProse

%% * SesquipedalianLoquaciousness

* StarvingArtist: Invoked as if subverted; the essay claims, ironically, that the romantic notion that lady novelists are poor but determined women writing to make a living is subverted by the upper crust settings. Later, dealing with a specific author, she observes that the dialog she writes shows her to be lower middle class.

* StopBeingStereotypical: Eliot expresses worry that people will take bad novels as proof that women as a whole are too dumb to be worth educating, since all it's apparently done for the authors is give them DelusionsOfEloquence.
%% * VirginPower

A lot of the tropes are Administrivia/ZeroContextExamples.

!!Tropes diagnosed in this essay (not all of them MarySueTropes, actually):

* AuthorTract
* TheBeautifulElite
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished:

* BigFancyHouse
* BlueBlood
* BoldInflation

* {{Curse}}

--> They see her at a ball, and they are dazzled
* DeathbedConfession When discussing the "mind-and-millinery species" of novel, where the heroine marries the WrongGuyFirst:

* DeathOfTheHypotenuse
* DesignatedHero [[invoked]]
* DistressedDude

* EasyEvangelism: In one of the novels discussed, "Literature/AdonijahATaleOfTheJewishDispersion,", the Jewish hero and his friends become "converted to Christianity after the shortest and easiest method approved by the 'Society for Promoting the Conversion of the Jews.'"
* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry
* GeniusBookClub
* GildedCage
* HistoricalFiction

* ImprobableAge

* LittleProfessorDialog
* LongLostRelative
* LoveAtFirstSight

* LoveDodecahedron
* MadeASlave
* MarySue: [[invoked]] Particularly CanonSue, as all the works are technically original fiction.
* {{Melodrama}}
* MoralMyopia

* OneWordTitle: One of the novels mentioned:
--> “Compensation,” a recent novel of the mind-and-millinery species
* ParentalMarriageVeto
* PeriodPiece
* PimpedOutDress
* PurpleProse

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness

* VirginPower

* AltumVidetur

* CharacterFilibuster:

* DancesAndBalls
* DeathbedConfession

* DuelToTheDeath

* RagsToRoyalty

* WrongGuyFirst

* EasyEvangelism: In one of the novels discussed, "Adonijah, a Tale of the Jewish Dispersion,", the Jewish hero and his friends become "converted to Christianity after the shortest and easiest method approved by the 'Society for Promoting the Conversion of the Jews.'"

* DesignatedHero[[invoked]]

* EasyEvangelism: In "Adonijah, a Tale of the Jewish Dispersion," the Jewish hero and his friends become "converted to Christianity after the shortest and easiest method approved by the 'Society for Promoting the Conversion of the Jews.'"

* MostWritersAreAdults: Eliot takes a moment to skewer a story that includes a four-and-a-half year old child talking in SesquipedalianLoquaciousness.