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If the pen name’s purpose was to keep bigotry against women from coloring how your work is received, it certainly does not.
by wmeredith 6y ago
If the pen name’s purpose was to keep bigotry against women from coloring how your work is received, it certainly does not.
- Swenrekcah 6y agoTrue, but certainly that should not be a problem for the vast majority of readers today. So this might alienate a very small percentage of potential readers, but instead enlighten every possible reader to the fact that the author was a woman.
- wongarsu 6y agoWhich could as well be done by writing the name as "Ms George Elliot" or by putting a picture of the author next to the name.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoIf you read the article you can see what I wrote was a pastiche of what Mary Ann Evans wrote in describing her reason for using a pen name, it was her partner George Lewes that said the purpose was to "get the book judged on its own merits, and not prejudged as the work of a woman, or of a particular woman".