Possibly social mores had changed somewhat by the 1950/60s: but Elizabeth Taylor (the novelist one) wrote in The Wedding Group (1968): 'The reason, they say, that women novelists can't write about men, is because they don't know that they're like when they're alone together, what they talk about and so on. But I can't think why they don't know. I seem to hear them booming away all the time.'
Does it count - men talking to men - if they are in some professional or familial relation to one another? (Okay, maybe GH Lewes gave George Eliot pointers. But her novels have a fair amount of reverse-Bechdel, and it's not just Lydgate giving Casaubon the bad news about his health.)
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Date: 2021-03-29 03:11 pm (UTC)Does it count - men talking to men - if they are in some professional or familial relation to one another? (Okay, maybe GH Lewes gave George Eliot pointers. But her novels have a fair amount of reverse-Bechdel, and it's not just Lydgate giving Casaubon the bad news about his health.)