Regarding the tznius issue, I don’t know if it’s a falsehood in any context if the way she is portrayed is the way she did sometimes appear. Regardless, it brings up a good point, similar to the Artscroll “biographies” you mentioned. Any frum publication by definition sometimes has a standard higher than telling it as it is or was (by omission), because in many cases it is assur to do so (l”h, bizayon). Since that is the case, though, an omission is not a misrepresentation, because it is the expectation, according to the context. This, I believe, is your point regarding Artscroll biographies (I quote, “though In a general biography it would be dishonest to edit pictures”, implying that it’s not dishonest for Artscroll), which I agree with. Hamevaser never prints pictures of women, so the analogy seems quite apt.
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