Just the title is absurd considering the thousands of women making money by writing. As a Greek , I can look back and actually read the works of Sappho, the poetess. Of course, her memory has been relagated to the gods that were Greeks. Sappho was from Lesbos and the label lesbian is directly attributable to her. She was a woman and she had women friends, learned, reading and writing friends as Socrates was a man and he had male friends.
Thank goodness, friends that Sappho was of a class that could not easily be made to drink hemlock or be banished, he should have taken banishment as he could have re-entered Athens in seven years. I guess he was too lazy.
However, since we live in the United States and are more or less influenced by English writers, we have no further to look than at the plight of poor Jane Austen. She wrote not because she was a pale vision of an early American writer, Emily Dickinson, living in an attic, Jane Austen wrote because she lived and she needed money from her writing.
It gives me no end of amusement to eyeball little learned pretentious American women flaunting their K-mart original clothing and emulating Jane Austen's preposterous, delightfully comic heroines. The manners and the society were peculiar to one of Jane Austen's class and have little if any bearing on Kingly Henry the Eighths types. But her heroines filled the foolish minds of grils and women and men like herself who needed to imagine a romantized version of their enslavers.
Just as Freud's really obscene written opinion that a woman earning as much as a man at the same craft would be absurd.
Really! Mr. Freud. Your psychology shows a definite childhood of abuse which you used to catapult yourself into the Father of Modern Psychology.
