"Not Long Before Rowling Was Published" Tweet Inspires Celebration Of Female Authors

The once innocuous writer of fantastical children and young adult literature, J.K. Rowling, the mastermind of the Harry Potter series and, to a lesser extent, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald, has been disowned by a sizable portion of her fanbase. A series of posts about transgender people, primarily asserting that transwomen are not women, have drawn the ire of her fans and critics alike.

Coming to her defense, one tweeter asserted that Rowling's work could not be removed from the pantheon of female-scribed literature because, as they wrote, "not long before Rowling was published, women authors were unheard of." Needless to say, this is not true. There were plenty of famous female authors long before Rowling put pen to paper.

Fans of female writers like Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and many, many, many more were quick to transform the infamous tweet into a celebration of female authors. Throughout the night, the names of influential writers trended on Twitter, thanks to some of the tweets below.