continuing the trend set by
dr seuss -- stole from Helen Palmer, his wife
paul klee -- stole from Hilma af Klint
andy warhol -- stole from Hilma af Klint
albert einstein -- stole from Milena Maric, his wife
cy twombly -- stole from Hilma af Klint
hayao miyazaki -- stole from Akemi Ota, his wife
leo tolstoy -- stole from Sophia Tolstoy, his wife
otto struve + henry norris-russell + ejnar hertzsprung -- stole from Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
george lucas -- stole from Marcia Lucas, his wife
f scott fitzgerald -- stole from Zelda Fitzgerald, his wife
john steinbeck -- stole from Sanora Babb
karl marx -- stole from Jenny von Westphalen, his wife
watson and crick -- stole from Rosalind Franklin
piet mondrian -- stole from Marlow Moss
jackson pollock -- stole from Janet Sobel
wolfgang amadeus mozart -- stole from his sister, Maria Anna (Nannerl) Mozart
felix mendelssohn -- stole from his sister, fanny mendelssohn
today i had the dubious honor of learning that william wordsworth stole entire passages out of the journals his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, wrote.
"The Grasmere Journal and Wordsworth's other works revealed how vital she was to her brother's success. William relied on her detailed accounts of nature scenes and borrowed freely from her journals. This passage is clearly brought to mind when reading William's 'Daffodils', where her brother, in this poem of two years later, describes what appears to be the shared experience in the journal as his own solitary observation. Her observations and descriptions have been considered to be as poetic if not more so than those of her brother."
So many cases of collaboration where the wife says “just put it under your name, we’re a unit after all!” And it turns out society does not in fact view married couples as a team, the success goes to the man.
That’s basically what happened with Milena Marić, she seems to have co-worked with Albert Einstein and was ok with it being published under his name because it would be easier.
Unfortunately as years pass it becomes harder and harder to find these women who were “subsumed” under the husbands name. What once was a collaboration becomes a solo effort and a great mythology arises.
And then some of these are just plagiarism.
