- All's Well That Ends Well
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Egbert, despite his professed hatred of female novelists, turns out to be a failed author of exactly the kind of sentimental novels he claims to despise. He has written three novels and dozens of short stories but has never been able to find a publisher, and he solves Evangeline’s dilemma by allowing her to pass his work off as her own.
Egbert’s failed writing career makes it clear that clichéd popular novels are not solely the province of women; men write them too. Furthermore, he refers to his own writing as “bilge,” suggesting that his aversion to female novelists doesn’t…