| ▲ | gabriel666smith 3 days ago | |
She was such a good marketer of ideas, and at sneaking them into more palatable constructs. The opinion you replied to frustrates me when I encounter it. She was only doing "magical thinking" in her narratives so much as her novels are marriage comedies, and this is required. The reality of her life was that she was incredibly uncompromising. She had to publish her early work under an androgynous pseudonym to profit from it. She didn't marry cynically despite having opportunities to. She was a realist, and a strain of that runs through her work. There are many moments where she anticipates the great Russian realists. She managed to turn a good profit on her art in spite of her period's circumstances. She genuinely advanced the idea of who is allowed to make art, and who is allowed to profit from it. Generally the novels have nuanced but happy endings. She was writing for an audience. She was a shrewd businessman at a time when there weren't businesswomen. In her personal life, she was genuinely uncompromising. She's a GOATed artist. You can't ask much more of a human! | ||