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George Eliot was a woman who wrote full-grown novels for men.
Other women have done and are doing notable work in prose fiction-Jane Austen, George Sand, Charlotte Brontë, Mrs. Stowe, Margaret Deland, Edith Wharton, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Mrs. Humphry Ward-the list might easily be extended, but it would delay us from the purpose of this chapter. Let me rather make a general salute to all the sisterhood who have risen above the indignity of being called "authoresses," and, without pursuing perilous comparisons, go directly to the subject in hand.