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Historically many female authors published under male pen names. The Bronte sisters for example.
by KineticLensman 8y ago
Historically many female authors published under male pen names. The Bronte sisters for example.
- apocalypstyx 8y agoYes. And a significant strain of public opinion believed that women shouldn't even be allowed to read their books because they were just too incompatible with womanhood. And even after the facts of authorship came out, some people still denied it. I almost suspect they weren't really accepted until they became the, sort of, categorical female writer per generation that that the history of British literature tends to display, along Austen and Eliot, etc.