Women and Writing
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From Paul Collins's column in Slate this week on the very first how-to book for fiction writers, produced in the late 19th century:
"The whole discipline [the study of fiction writing] had been gestating for a decade, beginning with novelist Walter Besant musing in 1884 over the notion of "Professors of Fiction"—something then as fantastical as a steam-powered robot. It was a vision that at least one critic found 'Appalling. As if there were not enough novels already. . . . [Now] we are to have our young maidens trained to the business, and let loose upon the world, in batches, every year to pursue their devastating calling, as if they were dentists or pharmaceutical chemists.'"
Scooby-cue: Hrrrh??
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From Paul Collins's column in Slate this week on the very first how-to book for fiction writers, produced in the late 19th century:
"The whole discipline [the study of fiction writing] had been gestating for a decade, beginning with novelist Walter Besant musing in 1884 over the notion of "Professors of Fiction"—something then as fantastical as a steam-powered robot. It was a vision that at least one critic found 'Appalling. As if there were not enough novels already. . . . [Now] we are to have our young maidens trained to the business, and let loose upon the world, in batches, every year to pursue their devastating calling, as if they were dentists or pharmaceutical chemists.'"
Scooby-cue: Hrrrh??
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