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Release Blitz: Brew Girl Eliza David
What happens when a feminist meets the chauvinist of her dreams? When Zoe Taylor was a pudgy brown little girl in the mid-Eighties, she dreamed of being one of the tall, thin, and white BrewGirls – the spokesmodels for Windy City Brewery, the staple beermaker of Chicago for over a century. Fast forward to 2016 – Zoe’s thirty-five, more curvy than pudgy, and working for Windy City Brewery as…
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The Tale of a Social Justice Warrior
OK, here’s a story about one of those awful SJWs and her attack on a famous author and his creative freedom. The author was a straight white man. Her name was Eliza David and what bothered her in this famous author’s work was antisemitism. She was particularly troubled by one Jewish character whose portrayal was extremely problematic - and also wildly popular with the author’s readership.
She wrote the author a series of letters - you could say that she serially harassed him, and questioned his artistic choices. And among the things she said was, “'It has been said that Charles Dickens, the large-hearted, whose works plead so eloquently and so nobly for the oppressed of this country . . . has encouraged a vile prejudice against the despised Hebrew . . . Fagin I fear admits only of one interpretation: but (while) Charles Dickens lives the author can justify himself or atone for a great wrong.'
Yeah, it was Dickens. And do you know what he did? I’ll tell you what he didn’t do. He didn’t dismiss her for being oversensitive. He didn’t tell her the only person who decided what he wrote was him. And he didn’t ask how he could possibly write a decent Jewish character when he wasn’t Jewish himself. Now what he did do wasn’t perfect - he wasn’t magically transformed into a beacon of pure light and love. But he went back to Oliver Twist and took out some of the most egregious antisemitism in the portrayal of Fagin. And at the centre of his next book, Our Mutual Friend, he put a sympathetic Jewish character.
It was my mum who first told me this story (we’re Jewish, in case you hadn’t guessed). My mum was born during World War II and survived the Blitz. Antisemitism committed its most horrific crime in her lifetime, and she has very strong feelings about people who display it. She’ll never read TS Elliot, for example - or even worse Ezra Pound. But Dickens is her favourite author.
Dickens probably was annoyed when he first read those critical words of Eliza’s. He probably did bristle - he definitely did proclaim that he couldn’t have written something antisemitic because he wasn’t an antisemite. But he also listened. I imagine his ability to listen and to see the world through others’ eyes was part of what made him such a great writer.
Dickens didn’t know or understand the impact of his own writing on the Jewish community - how could he? So when Eliza wrote him that letter, she did him a huge favour. Because I’m sure he wouldn’t have wanted to be remembered as a bigot. She helped to protect his legacy. She made sure he stayed on the right side of history, and who wants to be on the wrong one?
So the next time anyone tries to say that criticising an author’s work for racism or sexism or homophobia is trying to curb their artistic freedom, think of Charles Dickens. I’m not unrealistic about this. Some writers are just dicks. Dickens certainly was in a number of ways. But if he could take that sort of criticism (and benefit from it) I think today’s authors can too. Unless they’re just too over-sensitive, of course.
New Release: Girls’ Night In: A Collection of Short Stories based on The Cougarette Series by Eliza David
New Release: Girls’ Night In: A Collection of Short Stories based on The Cougarette Series by Eliza David
TITLE: Girls’ Night In: A Collection of Short Stories SERIES: Cougarettes AUTHOR: Eliza David GENRE: Cougar Lit
SYNOPSIS:
Ladies don’t kiss and tell…but who’s talking about kissing?
When CeeCee gathers Laney, Trina, and Sheila in her living room on a cold Valentine’s Day evening, things heat up quickly. With the help of
unlimited wine and plenty of laughs, the ladies of The Cougarette Series…
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New Release: Girls’ Night In: A Collection of Short Stories based on The Cougarette Series by Eliza David
New Release: Girls’ Night In: A Collection of Short Stories based on The Cougarette Series by Eliza David
TITLE: Girls’ Night In: A Collection of Short Stories SERIES: Cougarettes AUTHOR: Eliza David GENRE: Cougar Lit
SYNOPSIS:
Ladies don’t kiss and tell…but who’s talking about kissing?
When CeeCee gathers Laney, Trina, and Sheila in her living room on a cold Valentine’s Day evening, things heat up quickly. With the help of
unlimited wine and plenty of laughs, the ladies of The Cougarette Series…
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Pre-Order: The Cougar Series by Eliza David
Pre-Order: The Cougar Series by Eliza David
Welcome to the world of the cougar, where women over forty are the new twenty!
Eliza David has coined her books as being “Cougar Lit,” chick lit for the maturing female crowd. But anyone can enjoy these fun, sexy, entertaining reads and aspire to being a cougar when they get older, or at least feeling as hot as one, am I right?! Let’s hear what some readers have to say about this series.
The…
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Pre-Order: The Cougar Series by Eliza David
Pre-Order: The Cougar Series by Eliza David
Welcome to the world of the cougar, where women over forty are the new twenty!
Eliza David has coined her books as being “Cougar Lit,” chick lit for the maturing female crowd. But anyone can enjoy these fun, sexy, entertaining reads and aspire to being a cougar when they get older, or at least feeling as hot as one, am I right?! Let’s hear what some readers have to say about this series.
The…
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Promo Tour: The Cougerette Series by Eliza David (FREEBIE!)
Promo Tour: The Cougerette Series by Eliza David (FREEBIE!) @elizadwrites
Welcome to the world of the cougar, where women over forty are the new twenty! Eliza David has coined her books as being “Cougar Lit,” chick lit for the maturing female crowd. But anyone can enjoy these fun, sexy, entertaining reads and aspire to being a cougar when they get older, or at least feeling as hot as one, am I right?! Let’s hear what some readers have to say about this series! The…
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