Eustathius of Thessalonica recounted an ancient fiction in which both epics were composed by an Egyptian priestess, Samuel Butler, in " The Authoress of the Odyssey ", attributed the " Odyssey " to a Sicilian woman of the 10th century BC; and Robert Graves in his novel " Homer's Daughter " made a similar proposal.
42.
This applies in particular to avoidance of the default use of the masculine " he " when referring to a person of unspecified genders, usually using the neuter " they " as a third-person singular, and avoidance of the use of certain feminine forms of nouns ( such as " authoress " and " poetess " ).
43.
It is an excellent and ingenious complexity, in its way, but it might have been written by quite a number of the busy climbers of who now throng this particular slope of Dell; a hazardous manoeuvre, for the two authoresses are very different in tastes and sympathies . " The reviewer went on to say that, " The plan of the book is rather confused.
44.
In 1838 she lived in Douglas but had returned to the family home at the rectory at Bride by the following year, when she wrote the dedication of her book of poems, " Island Minstrelsy " at the age of 29 :'To her island home, the authoress affectionately dedicates the first and simple effusions of an island heart .'In 1841 Nelson took a trip to Paris, apparently for health reasons,
45.
She received honourable mention from the scions of Afrikaans literary critique, Nienaber, Senekal, and Bothma, who, writing in the early 1950s, stated, . . . amongst the many writers ( especially authoresses ) in the field of complex love relationships, Elizabeth Weber, with her understanding of how complex relationships develop, and her gift for being able to express the relative in human relations, has produced substantive literary material . . . .
46.
Romer was described by a near-contemporary, the Irish writer Richard Robert Madden, as a " shrewd, lively, mystery-loving, and'a leetle conceited,'occasional authoress, prone to expatiate rather extensively on themes merely personal, and regarding her own feelings, but always redeeming slight defects of that nature by vivid delineations, and smart, interesting, and entertaining descriptions . " The same author said that her descriptions of Palestine were " abounding more in sprightliness than spirituality ."
47.
Murray on getting published : " I can assure you, without too much rancor, that if I were a blind Hindu ( a reference to Ved Mehta, whose very long articles seemed to get into print as soon as he finished them ), a three-named English lady authoress or a friend of Edith Oliver's ( Edith, a close friend of Shawn's, seemed to have his ear on whom to publish and when ), my pieces would get read quicker ."
48.
In her obituary in the " New Monthly Magazine ", she was described as " the able authoress of some of the best romances that ever appeared in the English language; " in the " Literary Gazette " she was, " the finest writer in this kind of fiction that ever existed; " and in the " Gentleman s Magazine " she was noted to have produced romances that we able to be translated into'every European tongue to the'honor of the country .
49.
I also have the 1973 edition ( what strange things we all have on our shelves ), when she appears to be unknown : " The authoress with the greatest total of published titles is Miss Ursula Harvey Bloom ( Mrs A . C . G . Robinson ) with 468 full-length works to July 1972, starting in 1922 with " The Great Beginning " and including the best sellers " The Ring Tree " ( novel ) and " The Rose of Norfolk " ( non-fiction ) ."
50.
This short biography sowed the seeds for the myth of Austen as a quiet, retiring aunt who wrote during her spare time : " Neither the hope of fame nor profit mixed with her early motives . . . [ S ] o much did she shrink from notoriety, that no accumulation of fame would have induced her, had she lived, to affix her name to any productions of her public she turned away from any allusion to the character of an authoress . " However, this description is in direct contrast to the excitement Austen shows in her letters regarding publication and profit : Austen was a professional writer.
