Is it alright for men to read Jane Austen?

[Elckerlyc]

Thread has been hijacked by people worrying about feminine and masculine names. Thank you.

Quite. Or about the gender of the author.

 

[Pyan]

These days 'Marion' seems to be exclusively a female name but when the actor we know as John Wayne was born he was christened Marion Morris.

Inner pedant peeps out: Marion Morrison, not Morris.

 

[Christine Wheelwright]

That's odd about Marion, because the only Marion I can think of was the medieval Maid Marion, which I thought would have set a fairly strong precedent.

Yes, I think that's why they use the prefix 'Maid'. To make it clear that Robin Hood wasn't gay. Not that there would be anything wrong with that of course. He certainly spent plenty of time hanging around with the dubiously named Friar Tuck and Will Scarlett. So who knows!

 

[Swank]

Thread has been hijacked by people worrying about feminine and masculine names. Thank you.

Oh! Were you doing something useful with the thread?

 

[JunkMonkey]

Inner pedant peeps out: Marion Morrison, not Morris.

Quite right. A bit of careless cutting and pasting on my part obviously snipped his end off.

 

[hitmouse]

Quite right. A bit of careless cutting and pasting on my part obviously snipped his end off.

as the actress said to the bishop

 

[psikeyhackr]

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
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Of course they are all by females.