2026-09-29 03:21 UTC
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@DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2026-09-29 03:45
Some pay/benefits via your spuse/conditions is probably better than none.
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@Seimhe@lemmy.world 2026-09-29 03:54
I’ve heard so many of these stories. It’s so scandalous, yet not enough has changed today.
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@idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2026-09-29 06:04
I’m of two minds about this: obviously it sucks historically, when there were no other options for women, but today I absolutely want to help my husband with his work (and want him to help him with mine- we’re married and we depend on each other’s success). I guess it’s actually not complicated at all: the difference is choice. Just like I support women who want to be stay-at-homes today, it’s fucked up that women have historically been forced into that, and that some women still are (whether through actual force or through social pressure).
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@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2026-09-29 06:54
If the husband died first, his widow could end up “finding” “his” mislaid manuscripts for a decade or more…
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@Slashme@lemmy.world 2026-09-29 07:43
Or they just plagiarised freely, like Shakespeare did (I learnt this from a recent J Draper video). I had no idea about Dick Francis - I loved “his” books when I was a teenager.
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@nightlily@leminal.space 2026-09-29 08:05
My mum is a huge Dick Francis fan, and I tried buying one of his son‘s book for her. That was a mistake.
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@jdr@lemmy.ml 2026-09-29 22:20
Imagine losing your partner and being too sad continue writing though
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@Dvixen@lemmy.world 2026-09-29 23:13
Another example: Artist Margaret Keane whose husband (Walter Keane) took credit for her paintings. She did get to enjoy credit for her work while alive.
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@RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2026-09-30 07:06
With Dick Francis’ books it seems to have been a public secret for a long time. It was a joint decision by the couple to market the books this way, where she was the one who insisted on not being credited, while he wanted to credit her. *“Most persuasive is an account of a conversation he had with Mary Francis following an interview with her husband in 1980, when he asked her directly if she had written the books. That’s an impossible question to answer,” she said. “Yes, Dick would like me to have all the credit for them but believe me, Graham, it’s much better for everyone, including the readers, to think that he writes them because they’re taut, masculine books that might otherwise lose their credibility.” She begged Mr Lord not to mention this in his article, and he didn’t, because he had no wish to damage their careers. But he did keep the notes from the conversation and now he thinks it is about time the truth was told, and she enjoyed some credit for her literary efforts. “I don’t think she wrote them entirely,” said Mr Lord yesterday. “What I’m getting at is that Mary certainly has contributed a great deal more than anyone’s ever previously suspected, and that Dick himself would like her to get very much more credit for the books.”* independent.co.uk/…/dick-francis-thrillers-were-g…