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Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)
“In 1856, Mary Ann Evans, known by her masculine pen name George Eliot and often considered one of the greatest novelists of all time, wrote an essay called "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" in which she complained that "lady novelists" write unrealistic, wish-fulfillment fantasy schlock, with absurd Mary Sue self-insert protagonists who every man falls in love with. You know all the same complaints that people make today about romance fiction.”