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Perhaps this article will show you what your interlocutor means: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/06/catherine-nichols-female-author-male-pseudonym https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/06/catherine-nich... It is not a new phenomenon for women writers to be taken a shade less seriously than their male counterparts.