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A less systematic but arguably more profound dimension of George Eliot's career is the force of gender, which shaped the reception of her fiction from the outset. Initially, the discovery of her identity underwrote extensive attention to the author's personal life, comparisons with Jane Austen and the Brontës, as well as the stereotyping of various aspects of her achievement in the familiar binaries; occasionally it also prompted a category crisis. This paves the way for much later feminist engagement with the works as in various ways symptomatic of the social obstacles confronting an intellectual woman. With the rise of feminist criticism in the 1970s, Eliot's heroines seemed newly vexing.