6/27/2023 0 Comments Attila, My Attila! by Edith Cooper![]() ![]() She experimented with alternative spellings like Marian and with completely different names like Polly, used her common-law husband’s surname, Lewes, for much of her literary career, and was known as Mrs Cross at the time of her death. Though this was the name given to her at birth, Eliot’s “real name”, or the name by which we should refer to her, has been a matter of debate by researchers for years. The collection’s lead title, touted in all press coverage of its release, is George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1872) – now published with the author’s name given as Mary Ann Evans. ![]() However, whether it gives female writers the credit they deserve is up for debate. The scheme may have some positive outcomes, such as introducing readers to writers and works they might not have otherwise discovered. Marking the 25th anniversary of The Women’s Prize, under the bold tagline of “finally giving female writers the credit they deserve”, 25 novels have been reprinted using the real names of 26 writers who used male pseudonyms. ![]() She perhaps would not have been pleased by a new campaign from The Women’s Prize for Fiction and its sponsor, Baileys called ‘Reclaim Her Name campaign’. In a letter to James AH Murray in 1879, the writer ME Lewes wrote “I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot”. ![]()
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