Is that the same Jane Austen who, quoting wiki, "Like many women writers, she chose to publish anonymously" and the same Mary Shelley who published the first ed

Is that the same Jane Austen who, quoting wiki, "Like many women writers, she chose to publish anonymously" and the same Mary Shelley who published the first edition of Frankenstein anonymously. (You also left out the Brontës, all of whom used male pen names, and, as mentioned elsewhere, Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, aka George Sand). (Also which "Black Plague" are you referring to here? Your mention of "the 1700s" makes me think you mean the one of 1665, but that strikes me as extremely late in the 'there are lots of works written in English' game).